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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:52:41PM -0700, Jeremy Allison 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.
> 
> This is almost certainly the tdb locking primitives.

True. But which tdb and what can we do about it?

Volker

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