Andryan's Random Notes » Samba http://blog.nirkabel.org This blog is here to stay Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Slow download from Samba to Mac OS X http://blog.nirkabel.org/2007/05/11/slow-download-from-samba-to-mac-os-x/ http://blog.nirkabel.org/2007/05/11/slow-download-from-samba-to-mac-os-x/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:52 +0000 Andryan http://andryan.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/slow-download-from-samba-to-mac-os-x/ A couple of weeks ago I started to notice that I couldn’t watch videos served via my Samba server on my MacBook. I first thought it was a problem with Quicktime Player, but later I tried VLC and the problem was still there. I started up Activity Monitor to see how fast was the download speed, it was hardly over 150KB/s. Before, I was able to watch flawlessly on my MacBook with download speed of up to 2MB/s. Initially I thought that this could have something to do with the recent security updates of Mac OS X, but I couldn’t find anyone having the same problem on Google. Later I tried mounting my Windows-powered laptop’s shared folder and initiated a file transfer to my MacBook, it was transferring at normal speed (2MB/s)! So this problem only occurs when the share is served off Samba.

Yesterday I tried my luck on Google once more and finally I found this (sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0). Applied the suggested solution and it worked! Case closed.

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