you got demons in your box! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:13 PM, George Toft wrote: > Continuing saga . . . > SMB and FTP from another physical to this virtual run at full speed. SMB > from every Win7 box except this one runs at full speed. The communications > bog down only for SMB/FTP on the physical host to the VM. Next step is to > build a dedicated VMware host. I probably should have done that to begin > with, but was trying to cut down on the number of physical systems running. > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 10/28/2012 7:13 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > > thanks for the update! > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, George Toft wrote: > >> Further investigation shows it's not FTP nor samba. It's Windows 7 >> (which I used for Windows file and FTP). Using smbclient on a Linux box I >> get 19MB/sec and FTP from Linux I get 32MB/sec. Concurrent with replacing >> the old file server was the purchase of a new PC. I guess we know what XP >> does better than Windows 7. >> >> Regards, >> >> George Toft >> >> On 10/27/2012 6:01 PM, George Toft wrote: >> >>> Spent several hours researching this one - can't find a solution. I >>> hope someone here can hit me with a clue-by-four. >>> >>> CentOS 6.3 64-bit virtual running under VMware 2.0.2 fresh install with >>> FTP/Samba/NFS running. I copied 500+GB of data from the old computer to >>> the new one using NFS at full network speed (11+ MB/sec). Life's good. >>> >>> Now here it is a day later, and my samba write speed is a blazing >>> 80KB/sec (up from 40KB/s when I started troubleshooting). I read samba >>> should approach FTP speed and I verified it does - FTP writes to the new >>> machine at about the same speed. Reads still take place a full speed (now >>> it's on a 1Gbps network) - 33MB/sec. Writes . . . 99.8% slower. I did not >>> have this problem on the previous samba server (CentOS 4.8 32-bit). >>> >>> I added memory (it now has 1GB RAM, 1 GB swap) and it has 2 CPU's. This >>> had no effect. >>> >>> In summary, NFS works at full speed both ways. Samba/FTP are fast on >>> reads but snail slow on writes. >>> >>> My next thought is to install ClearOS, test it, and copy their smb.conf. >>> Or install CentOS 5.x and see if it has the same problems. >>> >>> Any ideas where to look on this one? smb.conf necessary. >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >