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+Contributor: Paul Cochrane <paulc@dth.scot.nhs.uk>
+Organization: Dundee Limb Fitting Centre
+Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998
+Subject: Samba SPEED.TXT comment
+=============================================================================
+
+This might be relevant to Client Tuning. I have been trying various methods
+of getting win95 to talk to Samba quicker. The results I have come up with
+are:
+
+1. Install the W2setup.exe file from www.microsoft.com. This is an
+update for the winsock stack and utilities which improve performance.
+
+2. Configure the win95 TCPIP registry settings to give better
+perfomance. I use a program called MTUSPEED.exe which I got off the
+net. There are various other utilities of this type freely available.
+The setting which give the best performance for me are:
+
+(a) MaxMTU Remove
+(b) RWIN Remove
+(c) MTUAutoDiscover Disable
+(d) MTUBlackHoleDetect Disable
+(e) Time To Live Enabled
+(f) Time To Live - HOPS 32
+(g) NDI Cache Size 0
+
+3. I tried virtually all of the items mentioned in the document and
+the only one which made a difference to me was the socket options. It
+turned out I was better off without any!!!!!
+
+In terms of overall speed of transfer, between various win95 clients
+and a DX2-66 20MB server with a crappy NE2000 compatible and old IDE
+drive (Kernel 2.0.30). The transfer rate was reasonable for 10 baseT.
+
+The figures are: Put Get
+P166 client 3Com card: 420-440kB/s 500-520kB/s
+P100 client 3Com card: 390-410kB/s 490-510kB/s
+DX4-75 client NE2000: 370-380kB/s 330-350kB/s
+
+I based these test on transfer two files a 4.5MB text file and a 15MB
+textfile. The results arn't bad considering the hardware Samba is
+running on. It's a crap machine!!!!
+
+The updates mentioned in 1 and 2 brought up the transfer rates from
+just over 100kB/s in some clients.
+
+A new client is a P333 connected via a 100MB/s card and hub. The
+transfer rates from this were good: 450-500kB/s on put and 600+kB/s
+on get.
+
+Looking at standard FTP throughput, Samba is a bit slower (100kB/s
+upwards). I suppose there is more going on in the samba protocol, but
+if it could get up to the rate of FTP the perfomance would be quite
+staggering.
+
+Paul Cochrane
+