Could you have a box saturating the bandwidth?
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:30:07 -0400, craig@ctrust.com <craig@ctrust.com> wrote:
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> On 24 Jun 2004 at 19:47, Backward Thinker wrote:
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> > > I am working with a Samba 3.x server, and for some
> > > reason, it takes a century for it to respond on
> > > the network. When it does respond everything
> > > works, but he lag is horrible. We are running a
> > > Novell 4.2 network, and are using a Winderz DNS
> > > server. This system is a test box, but I have
> > > noticed the same behaviour from the live linux box
> > > as well.
> >
> > Do these lag times vary wildly, or are they fairly
> > consistent? Is it only when you first connect? If
> > not, what actions tend to trigger the lag
> > (connection, file writes, but not file reads, etc)?
> > How is samba handling authentication? security = user?
> > security = domain? ads? How is network traffic
> > otherwise (ftp, etc)?
> >
> > Since it's test, I'd stop the "normal" smbd service and
> > fire up smbd -i -d 2. Then connect with your client and
> > see what's happening before these delays. If nothing
> > useful shows up, you can try -d 3, and so on. Anything
> > above -d 5 will probably not help you for this problem.
> > If no luck, then strace the smbd -i and watch for timeouts.
> >
> > GL,
> > ~ Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> The lag times are fairly consistant and occue durning ANY
> operation. File open, copy, directory open, connection, etc...
> network staffic has a good bit of broadcast, but nothing too
> serious, perhaps 5-8% of total traffic. security = user is how
> security is set up. The shares I'm using are public only, so
> there is no authentication needed.
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> From looking at the output from the console, it doesn't look
> out of the ordinatry, it just seems to take a while for
> anything to happen. I have an idea it has something to do with
> the network itself, as it is not confined to this box, nor to
> linux only. all of the windows boxen are having the same
> problem. The only systems that seem unaffected are the netware
> boxen.
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