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Re: [SLE] Slow network with NFS and Samba
  • From: Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:54:50 -0400
  • Message-id: <1118606090.29236.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 18:18 +0200, Frits Spieker wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Got the following problem.
>
> Have a home network, with 3 PC's running SuSE (2 times 9.3 and 1 9.1) and a
> hardware router linking it all together.
>
> One of the PC's is to be a server, serving files mainly.
>
> Everything installs just fine, I get access to the server and all (both with
> NFS and Samba).
>
> Downloads from the server down to the clients is as fast as it gets on 100Mb
> ethernet, but upload TO the server is extremely slow and results in a lot of
> errors on the server.
>
> See below:
> gothix:~ # ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:CA:17:7F:0B
> inet addr:192.168.0.69 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:82728 errors:22059 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:33165

The RX is showing 22059 errors. You might check the MTU size and if it
is 1500 change it to 1492. this may clear up the TX errors.

> TX packets:75140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:98389465 (93.8 Mb) TX bytes:8641743 (8.2 Mb)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1080
>
> I have tried everything that google can throw at me, but no results.
>
> Any idea what might be the problem here?
>
> If I convert one of the other PC's into a server and the "server" into a
> client, same result: from the temporary server to the temporary client (the
> real server): dead slow.

This confirms that there is a problem with this machine, the original
server.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge


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