Freebsd 5.4+samba

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I do not think polling will help him.

I've dealt with those Dells before, if I am not mistaken that
model uses a gigabit ethernet chipset.  There are problems
with some switches (I am assuming he is using a switch)
autonegotiating with the ethernet chip on that Dell.  While
I've only seen these systems as Windows servers so far, the
fix should be the same for FreeBSD, and that is to hard-code the
port to 100BaseT half duplex.

If that does not help, try substituting a more modern switch.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Michael Vince
>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:57 PM
>To: Monah Baki
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.4+samba
>
>
>Monah Baki wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed Freebsd 5.4 with samba 3.x, I'm running a calyx
>> software, and the 6 clients are winxp.
>> The smb.conf is as simple as possible. I noticed that some clients
>> are very slow to connect to the share drive and run a database search.
>> The server is a dell 8400 optiplex, no scsi HDD (sata I think), 3Ghz
>> and 512MB Ram.
>> I was wandering if there's a way to optimize samba, or
>freebsd. Right
>> now performance wise is worse then when they connect to the same
>> database on a win2003 server and I need to get the win2003
>server out
>> of the picture.
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>
>The FreeBSD 5/6 kernel sometimes struggles to pass 100mbits traffic or
>more, so you have to enable polling. 'man polling'
>
>Compile in to your kernel and enable polling
>Main compile options are.
>options DEVICE_POLLING
>options HZ=1000
>
>sysctl.conf
>kern.polling.idle_poll=1
>kern.polling.user_frac=50
>kern.polling.enable=1
>
>Then have something like 'ifconfig em0 polling' in /etc/rc.local
>
>Mike
>
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