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nachopro

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Registered: 2013-08-23

Posts: 91

Samba bad performance with GVFS-SMB

Hi! I have a home server with Arch + Docker running dperson/samba properly.

I use a laptop with Windows and Arch too to conect to this Samba server.

On Windows I achieve 110MB/s Upload and 110MB/s Download

But on Arch (XFCE + Thunar + GVFS-SMB) I achieve 40MB/S Upload and 50MB/s Download.

Running IPerf between server and client I achieve 110MB/s. The same speed vía HTTP between two machines.

How can I tune GVFS or something in my Arch system to perform better?

Thanks a lot!

Last edited by nachopro (2017-08-21 05:24:00)

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: Samba bad performance with GVFS-SMB

have you checked out the samba site? https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Sa … speed.html

edit: a quick gvfs-smb google search showed that it's a long standing issue with gvfs and smb. you can try scouring the interwebs to find a solution, but I might opt to find another approach. personally, I use sshfs in vifm to transfer files between systems, but there are countless other methods

Last edited by HiImTye (2017-08-21 15:33:55)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Samba bad performance with GVFS-SMB

If it is a share you use often why not put an entry in fstab? There are way to allow mounting it without root privileges or on demand and then it should work fine.

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valoq

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Registered: 2017-08-24

Posts: 5

Re: Samba bad performance with GVFS-SMB

For a good performance with smb shares I would suggest cifs mount https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ma … ifs.8.html

Try mounting the share with: sudo mount -t cifs //<server>/share <mountpoint>
You should get the same speed as with windows.