Over at macosxhints I saw a post complaining about the performance of samba on this fellow’s legacy hardware (10.3 on a G3). He did some searching in the man pages and here is a snipet of what he found and then tried. Would this make any since to do on an Xserve G4 or is it not even an issue?
“Digging through the man smb.conf help pages, I came accross this option: large readwrite. The man page clearly stated that this was the default setting. However, a 64bit capable kernel/OS is needed! So I set large readwrite = no in the smb.conf file, restarted the deamon, and bingo!
I now am able to juice the Beige box from my XP and OS X clients. Performance is great:
Write to SMB share: About 4MB/s
Read from SMB share: About 2.5MB/s
Quite an improvement from the original 100KB to 300KB I was getting.”
Vince Dolan
VP of R&D, QPI and IT
Waymar Industries
14400 Southcross Drive West
Burnsville MN, 55306
952 435 7100 ext 242
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