[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

[Gordon Ross]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com> wrote:
> Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.ross at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:30 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes
>>
>> Next experiment I'd recommend is to measure r/w speeds with ftp.
>> Want to narrow down disks/fs vs smb service.
>>
>
> Redid the CIFS bench just now.  38MB/sec read, 77MB/sec write.  So ftp is
> almost twice as fast.

OK, so next I'd grab a network capture of just a couple seconds during
the "middle" part of both of these transfer tests, and compare the delays
seen between requests and responses.

Have you compared with other SMB clients other than Win7?