[Samba] How to profile a samba function

[Thiago Fernandes Crepaldi]

I liked perf to this task !

I used it to find out a bottleneck regarding copy file... I had to
recompile samba with symbols ("--enable-debug" on samba 4) and install
libc-dbg (debian based gnu/linux) too. I'd recommend reseraching a bit
about this tool !


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Matthews
<qoole.samba at lillimoth.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to track down what is causing the slow running of sysvolreset
> on my system.
> I am aware that I have a great deal of files in my 'netlogon' directory
> which is why the problem is so apparent for me.
>
> sysvolreset takes approx 5+ minutes to complete.
>
> Tracing out samba-tool shows that the slowdown is caused by the samba
> function 'set_nt_acl'.
> This function takes approx 120ms to run, which when multiplied up by a few
> thousand files (2,000 in my case) you very quickly end up in minutes.
>
> running samba-tool using cProfile ('python2.7 -m cProfile
> /usr/bin/samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset') gives the following results:
> http://pastebin.com/98rYXRxe
>
> As you can see the only call that takes any 'significant' time is
> "samba.samba3.smbd.set_nt_acl"**.
> Because this function is part of the samba source rather than part of a
> python script cProfile cannot profile any further.
> How can I profile this function in smbd (without having to recompile samba
> would be ideal).
> I've seen 'perf' mentioned in other threads, is there any way this tool
> can be used?
> If I have to recompile and add my own timing code I will, but only really
> as a last resort.
>
> This problem can't be isolated to just sysvolreset as the 'set_nt_acl'
> function must be called quite frequently elsewhere.
> I think 120ms for a call to return is quite a long time. I would expect to
> see an overall performance gain if it can be optimised a bit!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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Thiago Crepaldi