[Samba] Slow performance with W2K

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:24:11AM -0700, Reese, Bethany wrote:
> Since upgrading our workstations to W2K SP2, users have been complaining
> alot about poor performance, i.e. files take much longer to transfer between
> W2K and samba shares, applications running from samba shares take much
> longer to run, Office applications are much slower, etc.  Users on NT4 do
> not seem to be having these performance issues.  
> 
> We are running Samba 2.2.3a on Solaris 8.  After installing samba 2.2.3a,
> the log files are filled with many open/close connections, which were not
> seen in the logs from previous versions of samba.  
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start with this and/or a
> resolution?

We have been fixing several performance related bugs with Samba running
on Solaris over the past few 2.2.x Samba releases. Firstly, I would
recommend moving to 2.2.5, as this is the latest current release.

Having said that we are aware of a Solaris fcntl bug which causes
slowdown with Samba on Solaris when large numbers of users are
connecting simultaneously. This may also affect us with large numbers
of concurrent users (on Solaris only) also.

We have made Sun aware of this and there is an escalation in progress
I believe. More information as we get it. This may or may not be the
problem that is affecting you here, I would definately recommend
starting with 2.2.5 and doing tests from there.

Hope this helps,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.