Re: My SAMBA is very slow

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:40:36 -0400
"Yancey B. Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I set samba up on my gentoo box but it is so extremely slow that it is
> almost unusable. I am trying to connect to it using WinXP Pro.

There are two issues I know concerning this.
The one is caused by internal stuff of smb and is explained in the smb-documentation.
The second can be caused by the networkinterfacecards. 
If you are using cards with the rtl8139 chipset (for example, and own experience) the simpelest solution 
could be to get one (1) other card.
Most times the problems are caused by driveroptions like "low cpu usage" or "interrupt collection" or
something like that. They mean that data is bufferd by the card and then send with one interrupt call
to the memory. The problem is that they get overrun continously and the packets have to be resent.
A chipset i have good results with in an heterogenus network (win,mac,lin) is the via-rhineII, as in the
'dlink dfe-530tx'. (<- perhaps a more popular brand in germany, don't know)

I hope it's of use for you,

	jan