Samba-Server reads incredibly slow

Alexander Appel alexander at caput.org
Tue Feb 10 18:53:47 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 06.02.2004 schrieb Gerhard Wiesinger um 14:39:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Alexander Appel wrote:
> 
> > Am Do, den 05.02.2004 schrieb Alexander Apprich um 13:37:
> >
> > > Have you checked the load of the server who stores the 100 MB file?
> > >  From my own experience it could be just a weak smbd process. Have
> > > you tried to kill all smbd processes on your server? Also, check
> > > with top (then shift+p fuer sort by CPU usage) if the system is okay.
> >
> > I didn't find any unusual processes or any process producing heavy load.
> > I tried restarting the server but it didn't change the strange
> > behaviour.
> >
> 
> I'm having the same problem.
> 
> Have a look at the samba technical mailing list.
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-January/033899.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-January/033901.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-January/033902.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-January/033903.html
> 
> Do you have the same problems?
> 
> As far as Richard Sharpe (samba and ethereal developer) helped me we
> traced it down that this must be a Linux TCP kernel bug with Fedora.
> 
> It depends also on the acpi/apmd settings of the kernel.
> 
> Also a strange behaviour:
> When sniffing with ethereal on the linux machine and looking at the trace
> with X11 remotly from the Windows machine (update packets in real time),
> performance is ok!!!!!
> 
> Which mainboard and network adapter do you use?
> 
> Also putty looses ssh connections.
> 
> Ciao,
> Gerhard

I finally found the source of the problem.. when I removed the LG
network-card from the slow server and replaced it with another one from
Planet everything worked well.

Thanks for your help everyone!

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Alexander Appel
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