Poor Samba throughput on 6.0

[Nick Evans]

> >
> 
> I have the same issue here on several different systems. I have not been
> able to get throughput past ~70 megabits. Most times smbd hovers around
> 5-10% CPU usage on a Duron 1200 system. With this one system upgrading from
> a P2-350, to an Athlon 900 to the Duron 1200 have not changed performance at
> all. The disk subsystem in the box has no issues doing reads and writes at
> a rate 4-5 times higher than what I get out of Samba.
> 
> Nick
> 

I should add that netperf between the windows and samba systems saturates the
link (100mb) as do ftp transfers.


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