----- Original Message ----- | Hi everyone. | | Just recently installed obsd 4.9 and setup samba to run on it for use | at home. | I am getting currently transfer rates of 8,9 MB/second on a 100 Mbit | connection. I would like maybe in the future to upgrade it into a | better machine with a Gb connection, maybe throw it in some RAID | controller into it, but first I am interesting in learning on how to | benchmark it and figure where the bottlenecks are on the current | machine. | The current machine contains a VIA C3 1GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 100 | Mbit Ethernet and a SATA HDD. (old mini-itx form factor board I had at | home unnused) | | Can anyone give me some directions, point me to the right tools to | use, etc ? | | Regards, | Henrique
The samba documentation is rather good. You could read through it paying particular attention to things like tcp_nodelay, oplocks, etc. For a small home network your not likely to see any substantial improvements but these little tweaks can help. It seems like you're already getting pretty decent performance out of your existing box now. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier
