Hey, so as the title suggest, I'm having troubles with my transfer rates with Samba. Generally, what happens is that anything transferring at a variable rate, like a torrent downloading, seems to drop to only a couple dozen KB/s. I re-niced the specific process for the transfer and the speed picked up by about 10x.

My Samba is configured to default to the 'nobody' user every time a connection is made. 'nobody' is allowed rw access to all my shares.

Is there any way to configure Linux, Samba, or X/Inetd to prioritize the Samba processes? The server in question is mainly just a media/file server running Samba and Plex on Debian.

Thanks in advance.

Are there any routers between the two systems?