On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 03:52:28AM +0000, George via samba-technical wrote: > Here is a strace of my system when it is accessing disk every minute.This is a small section of the attached file.-bash-4.2# ./bin/strace -t -p 16055 Your client is issuing SMB3 requests every 40 seconds are so. What are they ? What does wireshark say ?