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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Jan Ries wrote:
> 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.
I'm just curious, but what is the problem with that chipset. So far i didn't have problems with it, even after
a few terabytes of transfer :-)
stijn
> 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
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