Poochie Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Hi all! I recently tested samba performance across every combination of OSs I got at home having 3 computers: a PowerBook G4 with Leopard, a A64 X2 Server running XP and my Opteron running XP/Vista/Leopard. What I noticed is that my OSX86 box is quite sluggish in Samba performance, while downloading mostly. The nForce integrated Gigabit wasn't tested because it usually freezes the system and I don't remember it being any faster! I would think the performance is too slow to be OSX's fault, but the driver showed it can work faster than it does on some combinations... so I don't know what is the actual problem. What speeds are you guys getting? Here I attach my picture for reference... post your comments if you wish :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79731-slow-samba-gigabit-performance-on-yukon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
spugga Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hey Poochie! How did u do the measurement? can link me the app please? then i can add my results to ur thread. actually i think speed is quite ok as i have to use my 100mbit nic. hope tomorrow my gbit card will arrive here (more hoping it runs fine in osx86 10.5.1 - realtek 8169 ) i will do new measurements then gnite Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79731-slow-samba-gigabit-performance-on-yukon/#findComment-565998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poochie Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 Hey Poochie! How did u do the measurement? can link me the app please? then i can add my results to ur thread. actually i think speed is quite ok as i have to use my 100mbit nic. hope tomorrow my gbit card will arrive here (more hoping it runs fine in osx86 10.5.1 - realtek 8169 ) i will do new measurements then gnite Hallo To my very surprise, I cloned my installation from an ATA HD to a SATA HD (same model, just a 2MB cached Maxtor ATA133 drive replaced by a 8MB SATA2 Maxtor Drive [80 GB]) and those problems are simply gone! Now I can transfer from the A64's HD to my hackintosh HD at an average of 20 MB/s! Wonderful!!! I'll complete the other tests as soon as I have some spare time! Transferring from the Powerbook is still painfully slow, but from my actual XP file server it works like a charm... how weird! By the way I manually made those tests simply transferring times and measuring the time taken or monitoring the transfer graphs. It is usually between the actual average and the highest sustained transfer speed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79731-slow-samba-gigabit-performance-on-yukon/#findComment-566119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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