Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:08:42 -0500 | | From | Bill Hawes <> | | Subject | Re: smbfs performance of 2.1.61 versus 2.0.31 |
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Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> I have been casually using smbfs in 2.1.61 to mount shares on an Alpha UDB > running WinNT Workstation 4.0. Writes are dog-slow (~250-500 KB/sec), but > reads are acceptable (~500-700 KB/sec.) given that it's 10Base ethernet. > The real annoyance is that I cannot unmount the share from the Linux box! > It just complains that the file system is busy, which I've taken pains to > ensure is not the case.
Can you try to isolate the operation that's making the fs appear busy? Is it just any write operation? Try doing just some ls commands, then just some reads, etc.
As far as writing speed, current smbfs is slow with small writes, as everything is synchronous, so the network overhead is a killer. Try running a bonnie -d /mnt/whatever -s 5
and see what you get. If you're doing block writes, it should be faster. I get about 1.5Mb here (but it's 100mb ethernet ...)
Regards, Bill
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