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

[Len Whitwer]

On Aug 17, 5:38 am, "Craig A. Berry" <craigbe... at nospam.mac.com>
wrote:
> Len Whitwer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > I would have expected SAMBA to be about three times faster than
> > ADVANCED SERVER.
>
> > Anyone have any ideas on what I could to do with SAMBA to get
> > performance up?????
>
> Be sure to see Jim Duff's blog post about one type of SAMBA slow-down:
>
> http://www.eight-cubed.com/blog/archives/001178.html
>
> Even if you're not polling, the fact that each connection creates a new
> process on the server is an important distinction from how Advanced
> Server works.
>
> Now if the slow-down you're experiencing is not in making the connection
> but elsewhere (you didn't really say) then there would likely be other
> reasons for it.
>
> You also don't say what version you're using. Claims have been made
> about ongoing performance work, so there is a possibility a newer
> version might help.

Hi Craig:

As I posted earlier when transfering a large file from windows to
Samba it takes about a minute to even start moving the file (don't
know what's going on) where advanced server starts right away. It also
takes 50% longer in the transfer time once Samba starts writing data.

Len