Ten to 1 expansion of SMB requests to fcntl system calls?

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:04:50PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have been running some dbench runs using the standard client.txt
>> file and using dtrace to measure system calls made by the smbd.
>>
>> For ~97,000 requests (SMB1 requests) I see 1,288,252 fcntl syscalls.
>> This seems excessive. Where might those be coming from?
>>
>> This is a FreeBSD 8.0 system.
>
> What Samba version?

3.6.12 plus some patches from 3.6.13 and your patch to remove stat
from the non-sendfile read path.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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