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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: Unacceptably poor samba performance.
From:       Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier () mchp ! siemens ! de>
Date:       1999-08-31 16:56:49
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On Tue, 31-Aug-1999 at 11:51:41 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> Actually the problem is solved.  There is a bug/incompatibility in Samba
> 2.0.5a that causes horrible performance on FreeBSD.  Apparently it's not a
> problem on other OS's.  The changes that were made actually improve
> performance on other OS's.
> 
> Anyway, downgrading is an option except that there are 3 security holes that
> have been fixed in 2.0.5a.  There was a patch/fix posted to the
> comp.protocols.smb news groups by one of the samba dev team.
> 
> I should check back in there an see if there have been any new developments,
> as this was a couple weeks ago now.

My write performance went up to old values with 

	sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0


My read performance increased with

	socket options = TCP_NODELAY

	-Andre


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