Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of
too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests
Xia, Arandar
Arandar.xia at chn.fujixerox.com
Wed Apr 29 02:22:18 GMT 2009
Dear all,
My question is described as follows.
Server: Linux
Samba-3.3.1
Client: Windows XP with SP3
Step1: connect to the samba server.
Step2: select a directory name “test”. (The directory is created before testing.)
According to data captured by Wireshark, I find the following phenomenon:
The client will send a lot of NT Create AndX requests and QUERY_FILE_INFO requests.
The client repeats exactly the same queries many times before giving up. The whole network log repeats exactly the same sequence, only the FID is different every time. In my test FID changes from 0x3002 to 0x306a. And any access to a directory will result in these requests.
If I use a Linux client, this does not happen.
I am using a VFS backend of Samba to setup a file server. An action to get attributes of the file is needed for each QUERY_FILE_INFO request and there are so many requests. I think it is the reason why my Samba service is slow.
Could anyone help me to find the reason and give a solution?
Is there any wrong with my configuration or problem in my VFS backend?
The following data is only a part of community data.
No. Source Destination Protocol Info
26 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Query File Basic Info, Path:
27 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_PATH_INFO
28 client server SMB Trans2 Request, FIND_FIRST2, Pattern: \test
29 server client SMB Trans2 Response, FIND_FIRST2, Files: test
30 client server SMB NT Create AndX Request, Path: \test
31 server client SMB NT Create AndX Response, FID: 0x3002
32 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File Internal Info
33 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
34 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File Basic Info
35 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
36 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File Standard Info
37 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
38 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FS_INFO, Query FS Volume Info
39 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FS_INFO
40 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File Basic Info
41 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
42 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File Standard Info
43 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
44 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3002, Query File EA Info
45 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
46 client server SMB NT Create AndX Request, Path: \test:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
47 server client SMB NT Create AndX Response, Error: STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
48 client server SMB Close Request, FID: 0x3002
49 server client SMB Close Response
50 client server SMB NT Create AndX Request, Path: \test
51 server client SMB NT Create AndX Response, FID: 0x3004
52 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File Internal Info
53 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
54 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File Basic Info
55 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
56 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File Standard Info
57 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
58 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File Basic Info
59 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
60 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File Standard Info
61 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
62 client server SMB Trans2 Request, QUERY_FILE_INFO, FID: 0x3004, Query File EA Info
63 server client SMB Trans2 Response, QUERY_FILE_INFO
64 client server SMB NT Create AndX Request, Path: \test:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
65 server client SMB NT Create AndX Response, Error: STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
66 client server SMB Close Request, FID: 0x3004
67 server client SMB Close Response
Best Regards!
// Zeyi
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