[Samba] questions regarding 40G Samba Server

[mathias dufresne]

2016-07-13 17:41 GMT+02:00 Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:35:08AM -0400, Garland McAlexander wrote:
> > CIFS is single threaded, if you plan on using it with a large amount of
>
> Oh, "my" cifs as a protocol is multi-threaded. It's part of the Samba
> implementation that is single threaded. However, for large file I/O
> Samba is multi-threaded.
>
>
Does that means when some has to be transfered by Samba, Samba check the
file size and if that size is greater than a given size, samba forks itself
to have a separated process managing the transfer of that big file? Sorry,
I understand quickly only if explanation are long : )

And then, if I was right, what is the threshold size?

Cheers


> Volker
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