[Samba] samba produces heavy load on solaris server

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Dirk Jakobsmeier wrote:
| Hello,
|
| i have problems with to heavy load on our samba
| server (2.2.7) on a sun  solaris (5.8) server. We
| use the server to share data for mechanical cad and
| those programs open many, many (e.g. 1400 files in
| one model) files at a time  and because of this
| produce really heavy load on the server (cpu 15%-25% per
| smbd process).
|
| Trying a newer version of samba (3.0.14a) does
| not really make this better.
|
| Are there any changes that i can do to prevent this?

See the 3.0.x release notes for some comments on handling
large directories.  That might help you out.






cheers, jerry
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