From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Cole Subject: r8169: slow samba performance Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:39:47 -0700 Message-ID: <46CC66D3.8030602@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bacole@gmail.com To: shane@cm.nu Return-path: Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.229]:63718 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759291AbXHVQlt (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:41:49 -0400 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id e11so1243508qbe for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org >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