[SGVLUG] Samba performance issue

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can write a simple program on a Linux or Windows client machine to make
> simple random file requests and time the responses, but would this really be
> indicative of streaming performance?  I could open a large media file
> (larger than RAM on server and client combined) and request block after
> block and graph response times and dropped blocks.
>
> What type of testing do you think should be done to deliver a useful
> benchmark?

http://iozone.org/ has a read latency measurement, maybe that's a start?