Mounting Samba on Linux: smbfs vs cifs

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:53:51 +0000

When you notice that your samba throughput is not what it should be, it might be related to the mount options in your Linux client ( mount command ).

When mounting my Samba share with the following command ( on a gigabit link ):

mount -t smbfs -o username=verwilst //10.0.10.10/data /mnt/smb/

I got these results:

time cp /tmp/blob-1.5G /mnt/smb/blob-1.5G-smbfs

real    4m46.677s
user    0m1.512s
sys    0m27.862s

When the share is mounting with this command:

mount -t cifs -o username=verwilst //10.0.10.10/data /mnt/smb/

The copy command gives us this:

time cp /tmp/blob-1.5G /mnt/smb/blob-1.5G-cifs

real    0m18.050s
user    0m0.028s
sys    0m5.828s

Quite a difference you get by replacing 1 word eh

Slow transfer speeds @ Samba

Bart Verwilst — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:54 +0000

When you are noticing very low throughput on your beloved samba server, make sure the “socket options” entry is set to:

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

Usually this gives you a major speed increase.