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Samba performance tuning, a few questions

Greetings list members,

A few questions regarding smb.conf and its performance turning parameters.After reading a few sites online, Ive noticed a few smb declarations that dont seem to be automatically set from Server Admin, specifically:

oplocks=YES (seems to default to '0' in my smb.conf.. and caches local files, resulting in a large performance increase.. seems like a good idea??).
TCP_NODELAY
IPTOS_LOWDELAY
SO_RCVBUF=16384 (set to 8192 by default..)

Im looking for higher throughput and dont care so much for low latency (we are a motion graphics firm using 3D applications reading large quicktime files, textures, etc off of a shared fileserver, our dual G5 XServe.. and weve had some performance complaints lately, and oddly after upgrading to 10.3.7..). Has anyone had any experience with setting these parameters with Apples SMB with Windows XP?

Does Server Admin overwrite these custom settings (as it seems to with httpd.conf)?

Are there any other suggest performance tuning parameters for SMB that I have no listed (im sure some could speak volumes ;) or any detriments to setting these parameters that people have experienced?

Much thanks,



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