[nas-2000] Re: Performance SMB vs FTP
- From: Tom Haukap <warz@xxxxxxx>
- To: <nas-2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:34:24 +0200
Julius-
thanks for the answer. So I see that 's not worth much to further dig into
this problem. So I start to be lucky with these values :)
Yes, while doing SMB operations the box is under heavy load. Reaction time
in telnet are very very slow.
Sorry to ask: What is the difference between SMB and CIFS? Or di you meant
NFS?
Regards,
Tom
Am 17.05.2007 16:50 Uhr schrieb "Julius Loman" unter <lomo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:28, Tom Haukap wrote:
>> Triggerd by the recent discussion about ftp performance I check by box and
>> found out that the SMB transfer rate are only half of the once from ftp.
>>
>> I get nearly 7 MB/s from FTP but only around 3.5 MB/s using SMB.
> you are lucky having such values!!
> i'm getting 1.4MB/s with SMB and 2.8 with CIFS
>
> i've also done some testing and compiled another smbd in gentoo chroot on NAS
> with same performance results! so now I think the performance will not be
> much better via smb/cifs protocol on this NAS hardware.
>
> at least this cpu has ~70 bogomips compared to ~4000 with my 2.0GHz Pentium-M
>
> when downloading from NAS, arm cpu in NAS is very busy for smbd (95% or more)
> and when downloading from my laptop to another computer it is around 2% (at
> laptop).
>
> so now i guess the performance of SMB is limited with NAS hardware.
> has anyone got better results than yours 3.5MB/s ?
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