[TriLUG] Samba vs NFS -- Speed difference, why?

[Greg Brown]

QOS on the network giving preferences to UDP vs. TCP?  Obviously that
is a stretch, but it could be.

On 6/20/05, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a RH 9 machine that is acting as a fileserver for a completly
> windows network (98 & 2000), the users mentioned that the file
> transfers seemed slow.
> 
> Some testing showed that samba was moving data much slower than NFS.
> Nfs was using pretty much the entire speed potential of the network,
> where SMB was about half that, or less.
> 
> No indication on the server that CPU, HDD, or memory is the problem.
> 
> When tested off site with different hardware and a different OS
> (Ubuntu 5.04), the same problem popped up.
> 
> SMB dragging along, NFS cranking.
> 
> Since this is a mostly windows network we can't really use NFS instead
> of the samba.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this?  Some googling doesn't really turn up much.
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