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Hi there, |
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Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and |
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my desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But |
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a file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. |
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I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the |
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switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that |
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the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC and |
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negotiating as gigabit speeds? |
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The hard-drives on the server are using an older PCI SATA card, and |
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the NIC is also PCI. But I would have expected it to be a bit faster |
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than 100Mbps. |
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Any estimates over what kind of speed I should be seeing for large |
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file-transfers over Samba? Wildly ball-park is fine - I wouldn't |
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expect a 10x speed increase, but maybe 2x or 3x - 4x would be great! |
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I'll be testing between my Macs (both on the desktop switch, ruling |
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out both the Linux box and the suspicious cable) later today, I'd just |
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like some ideas of where I should be starting from. |
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Right now I'm seeing 10 gigs of .mp4 files (1gb - 2gb per video file) |
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taking about an hour - that's about what I'd expect from old 100Mbps |
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networking, not this shiny new stuff. |
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I'm not seeing any difference commenting & uncommenting "aio read size |
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= 1, aio write size = 1" (separate lines) from /etc/samba/smb.conf and |
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then running `/etc/init.d/samba reload`, but maybe I shouldn't expect |
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that to make any difference on an existing transfer. I just don't want |
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to interfere with this right now - I just want to copy as much as |
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possible on to my laptop before I go out, and I'll take a look at this |
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performance issue when I get home. |
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions or pointers, |
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Stroller. |