If you run: ethtool ethx (x is your ethernet's port number) What does the Speed line say? 100Mbps or 1000Mbps? I experienced some weird slowness from Vista only (Didn't have Win7 but I'd expect it to behave similarly), but never from XP. After some search at that time, turns out it was Vista's fault, but Samba had a workaround, which unfortunately I can't remember. Try booting into Windows XP, or a Linux LiveCD on your other machine and see if you still get slowness in transfers. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Dylan Distasio <interzone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I apologize that this question is not directly related to mdadm, but I > thought some of the list might have experience in a mixed > Linux/Windows environment. I am running a mdadm RAID5 file server on > a Ubuntu 8.04 Linux box on a gigabit LAN. I am using a Highpoint 2680 > card at PCI-E 4x as the controller (I have also tried the motherboard > SATA connectors directly). I am running SAMBA on this box to share my > RAID5 with my main Windows PC running Windows 7 64 bit (although I > have gotten similar results with Vista also). > My question is related to what I consider slow speeds when reading > from or writing to the array from my Windows box. I get anywhere from > 20-30MB/s in either direction when transferring a single large file (3 > GB as an example). I haven't done detailed benchmarking on the array, > but spotchecks of file transfers from another drive on the same linux > box are giving me speeds above 100MB/s for reads and writes. > Does anyone have any suggestions for improving my speeds across the > network? I don't know if SAMBA is causing some kind of bottleneck or > if Windows is not playing nice or if it's something with my network > configuration, but I was hoping to get alot closer to saturating the > gigabit connection. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
