Samba faster than NFS...

pAn1k · 07-14-2005, 03:25 PM

Is Samba faster than NFS, or vice versa. Also, while transferring files from my Samba server w/ 10/100 Mgbit card to my laptop (10/100 Mgbit) I only get about 4~5 Mgbit p/s. What can I do to speed this up?

Thanks

keefaz · 07-14-2005, 03:36 PM

Try both, with nfs you could add this option in fstab client
to speed up a little the transfer :

Code:

rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr

pAn1k · 07-14-2005, 03:44 PM

Thanks for the reply...

Matir · 07-14-2005, 03:58 PM

Are you getting only 4-5Mbit/sec or 4-5MByte/sec? If you're looking at file size/time, that would 4-5MByte/sec, which is actually fairly normal (ok, a tad low) for a standard 100MB ethernet connection.

trickykid · 07-14-2005, 04:22 PM

In my experience, NFS is faster than Samba.

Matir · 07-14-2005, 04:30 PM

In my experience, the two are about the same. But I've only worked on consumer-grade hardware, so I've probably been bottlenecking at either the network or the drive.

pAn1k · 07-14-2005, 09:04 PM

Sorry for the type-o I am getting 4~5 MBytes/sec. Thanks for the replies all.

Brian Knoblauch · 07-15-2005, 06:59 AM

On a good connection, NFS should be faster due to it's very nature. However, SMB may be more reliable on "noisy" links.