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Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> OK well I give up |
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I did, too... |
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> Transfer 39Mb file from |
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> gentoo -> XP share using winXP copy trans time >=5 mins [gentoo smb |
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> directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] |
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I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting |
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observation. If I copy a file from WinXP to an SMB share on a Gentoo |
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server with the XP explorer, I get about 2MB/s throughput, which is not |
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all too much on a 100Mb/s network. However, if I run the following |
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command in the background (eth0 being the interface over which I copy): |
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tcpdump -n -i eth0 >/dev/null |
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the throughput increases to about 8-10MB/s! |
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I have no idea where this could come from. The only explanation I can |
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see is that tcpdump puts eth0 into a sort of promiscuous mode, which |
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interacts favorably in the SMB protocol. But I haven't been able to |
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figure out how I should tune eth0 to get the same results without tcpdump. |
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-- Remy |
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Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |
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