Does Windows 10 Pro file sharing (aka Samba) throttle its speed? Mine seems to cap out at exactly 25 megabytes per second.
My Windows 10 Pro machine is directly connected (via crossover cable) to a CentOS samba server with 10gbe (10-gigabit) network cards.
I get at least 7 gigabits per second between the machines. I tested this by doing an FTP from the Windows box's RAM drive to the CentOS server's RAM drive, I get 899 Megabytes/second transfer (which is about 7.5 gigabits per second). So I know they can communicate at that speed.
When I connect to the same drives via Windows File Sharing (Samba), it maxes out at exactly 25 Megabytes/second. That's a rounded number, which makes me think I'm hitting some throttle somewhere, either on the Windows side or the Samba server side.
Samba version: samba-3.6.23-35.el6_8.x86_64
I should also note, Samba appears to use far more server CPU than the FTP server does.
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