Hi, I'm not shooting for an enterprise grade fileserver, mind you. I'd like a save and reasonably fast box for a couple of windows clients. I know SUSE for years and therefore I grabbed a 11.1 DVD and sat up a PC with an SEMPRON 3000, 2GB RAM, a 160 + 300 GB Samsung SATAs that should deliver enough to saturate the 100 MBit-LAN at any time. It's just, that windows <--> windows transfers tend to fill a 100MBit-LAN nicely with around 10MB/s. A SUSE or Knoppix on the same machine will yield only about 6-7MB/s with SAMBA and EXT3 and default settings. OK, I'm a wee bit unfair since SUSE does this on a RAID1. With EXT3 on an unRAIDed partition it pulls around 7-8. SUSE on an unRAIDed XFS gets 10MBs writing with FTP but only 8-9 with SAMBA. On EXT3 FTP wasn't that much faster than SAMBA. On the other hand I read in wonderfully-wise-web that XFS might be faster than EXT3 but it loses stuff now and then. I looked on Gnomes system monitor while pushing cd ISOs through the wire on empty file systems on the "server". Obviously the CPU shows the efford but is by far not maxed out and RAM shouldn't be an issue with 2GB either. Depending on the filesystem I can watch the LAN throughput drop down in optically equal distances. It seems to transfer X MBs then pauses. There were just a couple of segments per ISO. I figure it must be at least 100MB each. E.g. with EXT3 and SAMBA's default settings. There are some segments that wobble around 6.5 MB then every 3cm on the monitor ;) it peaks down to 500K/s and accelerates again. My guess is there is something written to disk while the transfer gets stopped until the writing is done. How would I get a fileserver that's performance can compete with plain Windows? Is there a howto for this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org