On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:30:07PM -0400, craig@ctrust.com wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2004 at 19:47, Backward Thinker wrote:
>
> >
> > > I am working with a Samba 3.x server, and for some
> > > reason, it takes a century for it to respond on
> > > the network. When it does respond everything
> > > works, but he lag is horrible. We are running a
> > > Novell 4.2 network, and are using a Winderz DNS
> > > server. This system is a test box, but I have
> > > noticed the same behaviour from the live linux box
> > > as well.
> >
<snip>
>
> The lag times are fairly consistant and occue durning ANY
> operation. File open, copy, directory open, connection, etc...
> network staffic has a good bit of broadcast, but nothing too
> serious, perhaps 5-8% of total traffic. security = user is how
> security is set up. The shares I'm using are public only, so
> there is no authentication needed.
>
> >From looking at the output from the console, it doesn't look
> out of the ordinatry, it just seems to take a while for
> anything to happen. I have an idea it has something to do with
> the network itself, as it is not confined to this box, nor to
> linux only. all of the windows boxen are having the same
> problem. The only systems that seem unaffected are the netware
> boxen.
Guess: DNS or name resolution, assuming you're not getting massive
packet collisions for some network hardware reason. I don't know that
Samba has anything to do with this directly.
Paul
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