Samba Tunning with OSX | ||||||
| posted by Richard Barnes on Dec. 4, 2014, 4:57 a.m. | ||||||
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Hi, Been working on a small project with centos 6.5 on a server (Dell R720) for back ups. I've bonded the NIC's and running a samba share. I have had great success with transferring large files, but when transferring folders with a large number of files and folders (thousands for testing) the speed is dramatically reduced. I created a test case, one 10gig file (FolderA) transfers in around 3 mins, but 10Gig created with thousands of files (FolderB) takes about 8mins. Now you may say that is about right due to acknowledgments, number of files, but I did try with an off the shelf product and even though the folderA took longer (5min), folderB took only 6mins. I found a great site to help with samba tuning, but most of my efforts have resulted in slowing down the transfer rather than speeding it up. https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/speed.html http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/appb_02.html There are also references to changing the delayed_ack and sysclt.conf on both the server and the client, though I would prefer to leave the clients as they are. Also tried NFS and FolderB took even longer around 10mins. Any thoughts or person experiences would be greatly received. Kind regards Richard |