SMB file transfer measure

[int13]

I have poor LAN performance between WinXP and FC3 (with samba), I want to measure the current performance, but I don't know how to do that, could you help me? My idea is to play a little bit with the smb.conf options after the measurement.

[ph34r]

Start with a massive and compressed file...

dd if=/dev/urandom of=bigfile bs=512 count=1000000

This should be a close to 500mb file. Then mount your samba share and copy the file

time cp bigfile /mnt/samba/server/share

The "time" command will tell you how long it took. Adjust smb.conf (comment it plenty while you do), restart samba, and recopy the file.

[int13]

And here is the rest of the task:

I have home lan -2 PC ,one is with 100Mbit NIC the other is with 10Mbit NIC, what value of "socket options" in smb.conf do you recomend for this lan? I've noticed when I reduce the send buffer in smb.conf to 1024 the performance is the best- iptraf measures 6000 kb/s .. so how can I set the best performance for my Samba?


PS: the other machine is with XP

[soulestream]

are they hooked together with a hub or a switch?


soule

[int13]

they are directly connected via twisted pair cable (I think it's sort of FTP cable -or that's what the guys who gave it to me have said)