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Re: TCP/buffering changes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Aug 23 14:28:53 1996

From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: dcrane@ivs.piedmont.net (Darren Crane)
Date: 	Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:15:53 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960822155736.269E-100000@ivs.piedmont.net> from "Darren Crane" at Aug 22, 96 04:19:38 pm

>  Ok, stupid things first... Yes, I have recompiled the Smaba binaries,
> Yes, I have tried new versions of Samba.  No change.  The only thing that
> speeds things up is the pre2.0.7 kernel.  I dont know which kernel rev
> between pre2.0.7 and 2.0.14 slowed things down, sorry.

Any chance of trying say 2.0.0 and 2.0.8 to try and narrow this down. It
does look interesting and probably like a bug. Either that or we speeded it
up too much for your clients ;). Somehow I suspect we have some kind of
interaction of the former kind. Do you have the TCP_NODELAY option enabled
in SAMBA ?

Alan


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