Bad performance with samba3

[Eric Roseme]

You can read up on Oplocks in JHT's samba 3.0 HowTo, at:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/locking.html

Eric Roseme
Hewlett-Packard

Fabien Chevalier wrote:

>Le Mardi 17 Février 2004 16:12, Olaf Frączyk a écrit :
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>>On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:46, Raphael Berghmans wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Since our files server has been migrated from NT4 to Samba
>>>3, several users complains that the time to open a Word or
>>>xls file is very long (about 30 seconds).
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>>>Which could be the reasons of this bad performance ?
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>>>Which parameters have to be modified ?
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>>Check if it is not oplock problem.
>>If you it is, then turn oplock off in smb.conf.
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>I'm a newbie to Samba and i'd like to learn.. :-)
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>Could you explain why it could be related with oplocks? 
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>bye,
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>Fabien
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