Bug 10856 - Samba upload speed over WiFi drops after some seconds
Summary: Samba upload speed over WiFi drops after some seconds
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libsmbclient (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.0
Hardware: x64 Linux
: P5 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba QA Contact
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2014-10-06 14:00 UTC by Ettore Atalan
Modified: 2014-11-23 01:40 UTC (History)
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Description Ettore Atalan 2014-10-06 14:00:49 UTC 
Hi,

I'm using Samba to up- and download files on/from my NAS.

Uploading files on my NAS using SMB is quite depressing. The upload speed begins at around 4.5 MB/s (like on Windows 7 all the time) and then collapses to around 0.6 MB/s after some seconds (10 – 20 secs). The iwlwifi driver "works perfectly" (see URL), but I don't find any Samba error message in the syslog, but something is definitely wrong.

Best Regards,
Ettore Atalan
Comment 1 Jeremy Allison 2014-11-06 20:34:38 UTC 
Try doing an ftp transfer without Samba being involved over the same wifi connection. That will give you more data on how much SMB is affecting the problem.
Comment 2 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-06 23:53:15 UTC 
FTP works without any problems as good as SMB on Windows.
Comment 3 Jeremy Allison 2014-11-07 00:43:44 UTC 
So SMB is very sensitive to packet loss, with the default algorithms on a Linux server. What is your NAS make of ?
Comment 4 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-07 12:53:23 UTC 
My NAS is a QNAP TS-110 with latest firmware version 4.1.1 running Samba version 3.6.23.
Comment 5 Jeremy Allison 2014-11-07 16:57:18 UTC 
OK, this almost certainly isn't a Samba problem, but a Linux TCP issue dealing with a lossy network.

Check this out:

http://linuxgazette.net/135/pfeiffer.html

and I'd try:

echo "westwood" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control
Comment 6 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-07 17:51:00 UTC 
Thanks for the link.

The "cubic" algorithm is selected currently.
Comment 7 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-08 14:13:56 UTC 
The upload speed is going up and down continuously (from 100 kB/s – 3000 kB/s)  with the "westwood" algorithm. Not really an improvement to the 600 kB/s before.
Comment 8 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-13 13:03:27 UTC 
No idea what's going wrong?
Comment 9 Ettore Atalan 2014-11-23 01:40:21 UTC 
Is it a TCP bug?