Samba Performance

David Collier-Brown David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Mon Oct 17 12:56:18 GMT 2005


  You've hit an area where Unix (and Linux) filesystems
are critical to the performance of Samba.  Huge directories
are a pain with  traditional Unix filesystems and Windows
clients.
  Are you using ext3? reiser? 

--dave


Anthony wrote:
> Hi Sir,
> 
>  
> 
> Share Folder on my Linux, samba use more resources (CPU, memory), I think I
> had more than 8000 file in my share folder, can you help me to fix it
> problem,
> 
> Thanks for your attention.
> 
>  
> 
> My Linux Server OS is Fedora Core 4 Kernel 2.6.13-1
> 
> CPU: P4 2.4Mhz,
> 
> RAM: 1 G,
> 
> RAID Card: 3ware 9500-8
> 
> RAID Mode: RAID5 total volume has 1.56T
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anthony Tsang
> 
> 

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