Files by samba very slow

Hola Jose,

There is very little information for us to go about. Can you give us some more info ? (hardware, configuration, etc... )

Can you try pinging the server and send us the results ?

Thanks
Chris

Please read FAQ: nº 5 is what you need to see: Solutions to common problems

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Please read FAQ: nº 5 is what you need to see

Even if SMB transfers totally stall? I would look into dmesg output and at the network cable/switch first in such a situation.

The issue may be with the C States setting. Ever since the Bay Trail series (j1800/1900), Intel embedded J series processors have had random freezing/slowdowns under Linux. While a high severity bug has been open for years, this hadn't been fixed. Intel hasn't addressed it either, both because it's intermittent and because this segment is a low margin, low profit segment for the company.

One of the most noticeable symptoms of this problem is transfers slowing to a crawl, which is what you have.

If you still have the board, try to disable C States and see if that fixes the issue. This can be done in the BIOS/UEFI on many boards. If you are comfortable editing GRUB settings, you can fix it there instead by adding: intel_idle.max_cstate=1 to the "GRUB CMDLINE..." entry instead.

There may very well be other issues, but this is easy to test, so may be something you may wish to try. I don't know your specific issues, but I am familiar with the hardware family you are using with the symptoms you have.

I have the same board and no problems with smb speed. Bios power saving options are all enabled.

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I have the same board and no problems with smb speed. Bios power saving options are all enabled.

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I have a QNAP TS-451 with a J1800 that has been running OMV for a few years. It has no problems saturating gigabit via samba or nfs with no custom settings on anything. And it did this with OMV 2.x then 3.x and now 4.x.

I think that's part of the issue, its intermittent. Certain hardware combinations are completely unaffected, even with the same base hardware. I myself have two J1900 based untangle boxes that ran for years until they were pulled in an upgrade, yet a Gigabyte box that had similar specs froze up daily until I applied the c states line in GRUB.

Its still on the Debian Wiki as an unresolved potential installation issue (and includes the fix I recommended above). The bug tracker on Kernel.org has almost 1000 entries from over 200 contributors, so I think its real. There's just no concrete answer why it impacts some systems and not others.

But, its something I'd check on an Intel "J" processor system when its a fairly new Linux based install and suddenly slows down. Just one step though, we all know it could be lots of things.

The 'it works for me answer' shouldn't express that it has to work for the thread starter as well without any additional try and fail. In fact I wanted to show the possibility to get the board working, to save some money cause there may not be the necessity to buy a new one.
Your answer to the problem is much appreciated cause it shows a possible solution.