[Info-vax] SAMBA really sloooow on OVMS Integrity. Any Ideas????

[Len Whitwer]

On Aug 16, 12:37 pm, "PEN" <pen1959... at spam.bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> > We are trying to move from an Alpha ES40 running advanced server to an
> > rx2600 running SAMBA. Have everything working but SAMBA on the rx2600
> > runs only about 50% as fast as the Alpha running Advanced Server.
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> > I would have expected SAMBA to be about three times faster than
> > ADVANCED SERVER.
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> > Anyone have any ideas on what I could to do with SAMBA to get
> > performance up?????
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> Hi Len,
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> It's probably the usual source - large, non-stream files in the share
> directory (on an ODS-2 volume).  In some cases CIFS has to read the entire
> file just to determine the "Windows" size.  If you have v1.2, much of the
> gory details are in the admin guide (chapter 12), including how to improve
> performance.
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> If that aint it, can you provide some specifics like version, what
> operations you're attempting, etc.?
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Thanks Paul:

I did notice that when doing a file transfer from windows to Samba
(Large File) it took
about a minute before the file even started the transfer.

Len