Poor Samba Performance Fixed

Published on 03 December 2007 by James in Gentoo

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I have been having poor performance with Samba on my Gentoo-based file server for larger files (videos, 8 megapixel photos, etc). I tried everything, including performance tweaking but couldn’t get Samba to perform for these larger files. When I used scp to move the files across my Gigabit LAN, I’d see 10-20MBps transfer rates, so [...]

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My dream projects for this week:

Linux Software RAID configurator tool – I have yet to see a good Linux tool for expressing, at a high level, that I want 4 mount points, with the 1st as RAID 1 /boot at xxx MB with ext3fs, the second as RAID 5 / at xxx GB with ext3fs, [...]

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