Tweaking "Search Count" in FIND_FIRST2?

[James Peach]

On 20 June 2010 06:54, M. Strecke <MStrecke at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem communicating with a Synology NAS device.
>
> When accessing a directory containing 7000+ files, a Linux box returns the file list within 20 seconds, but a Mac using OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard) takes 15+ minutes(!).
>
> After a few days of research, I used WireShark to get a packet capture from both the Mac and the Linux connection.
>
> The main difference seems to be that the Linux box uses a FIND_FIRST2/FIND_NEXT2 with a "Search Count" of 1366 to retrieve the (huge) file list, followed by
> QUERY_PATH_INFO for each file.
>
> The Mac uses the same functions but has only a "Search Count" of 6. After that it retrieves the QUERY_PATH_INFO for these 6 files, it proceeds with FIND_NEXT2 for the next 6 files and so on.
>
> This is obviously a huge overhead, which could explain the 15+ minutes.
>
> The Mac uses the smb_fs. The Samba version on the Mac is "3.0.25b apple".

smbfs is not Samba. You should report these kind of bugs directly to
Apple using http://bugreporter.apple.com

> My question is: is there a way to tweak the "Search Count" setting?

Nope. This particular problem is a known issue with smbfs


>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Mike
>
>
>



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