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From: Bruce Cole <bacole@gmail.com>
To: shane@cm.nu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bacole@gmail.com
Subject: r8169: slow samba performance
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:39:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CC66D3.8030602@gmail.com> (raw)

>Just upgraded a motherboard and it came with an onboard
>Realtek card which appears to use the r8169 driver.  The
>machine is a samba server and when serving files to a local
>Linux or Windows client, I only get approx 40-60 kbps. 
>Write performance is fine though, in the tens of mbps and
>scp, nfs, and ftp server all work well so it appears
>specific to the Samba load.  However, when serving to more
>than one client symoltaniously, performance goes up
>dramatically, again into the tens of mbps or when there is
>other network activity.

Shane, join the crowd :)  Try the fix I just re-posted over here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg39244.html




             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 16:39 Bruce Cole [this message]
     [not found] ` <20070822182116.GA5445@csy.ca>
2007-08-22 19:46   ` r8169: slow samba performance Bruce Cole
2007-08-27 22:34     ` john
2007-09-03 21:03       ` Francois Romieu
2007-09-04 20:04         ` john
2007-09-04 20:37           ` Francois Romieu
2007-09-04 21:00             ` john
2007-09-04 21:51             ` Bruce Cole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-09  7:44 David Madsen
2007-09-09 15:33 ` Francois Romieu
2007-09-14  1:31   ` David Madsen
2007-09-16  1:11   ` David Madsen

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