[Samba] performance problem with samba in any version and small
files
Thomas Reiß
thomas at mypoint.franken.de
Mon May 3 16:16:53 GMT 2004
Hallo Pascal Hahn,
> I got big performance roblems in here with our big file server. We got a 2.4
> ghz Intel xeon in there, 1 gb ram and 2 scsi hds in softraid 1 on an adaptec
> Adaptec ASC-29320 U320. The array is set up with standard ext3 system.
>
> We are running samba on it with our business softwares data on it. Its a
> program which uses lots of small and some bigger text files to store info in.
> When we work on the server with 4 persons we got about 1200 files locked abd
> being read. it isnt that much of data(per client about 50 mb transferred) but
> the speed is veery slow. I get about 10 mb/s from the raid in all which is
> nothing. I also got the samba process eating all 100 % of my cpu.
>
> I tried to move the files outside the raid but that didnt have any effect on
> the performance.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how i can speed up the performance? Is it possible
> that the locking slows down the performance so much?
Have you the Chance to change the Filesystem (to reiser or xfs) ?
These FS _should_ be better on a lot of Files in a Directory and
Handling of that.
Or play with the Options
-R stripe=stripe_size
and
-J device=other_journal_device
of mkfs.ext3.
Hope it helps
Thomas
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