Samba-VMS 2.2.4 performance tuning?

[RR - Rod Regier]

I'm testing SAMBA 2.2.4 as a possible replacement for Pathworks V5.
(DS10, V/A 7.1-2, TCPIP 5.1 ECO 4, ODS-2 on shadow sets).

My initial benchmark testing of SAMBA on the same VMS platform and same
small directory
(benchmark Pathworks, shutdown Pathworks, start SAMBA, benchmark SAMBA,
shutdown SAMBA, restart Pathworks)
generates SAMBA benchmark elapsed time performance that is inferior
to Pathworks by at least a factor of 50!

I am a SAMBA novice, so I have little idea which are the important
SAMBA parameters to tune for better performance.  Hints or pointers
to good reference sources would be appreciated.

smb.conf file:

[global]
        workgroup = WILMA
        netbios name = DYMA
        security = SERVER
        password server = ntfs
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        update encrypted = Yes
        log file = /samba_log/log.%m
        deadtime = 10
        printcap name = /sys$manager/ucx$printcap.dat
        default service = default
        guest account = DYMAX
        create mask = 0777
        print command = print
%f/queue=%p/delete/passall/name="""""%s"""""
        lprm command = delete/entry=%j
        map archive = No
        share modes = No

[R]
        comment = Operating system disk
        path = /sys$sysdevice/000000
        read only = No
        create mask = 0775
        guest ok = Yes
        share modes = Yes
[S]
        comment = Application shared tree
        path = /dym$disk/000000
        read only = No
        create mask = 0775
        guest ok = Yes
        share modes = Yes

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /dsa1/pcfs_spool/default
        create mask = 0700
        guest ok = Yes
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

					\\

Benchmark program:

#======
#
# Script - NETBCH.PRL by D. Misener  8-OCT-99 /  8-OCT-99
#
# Purpose-
#
#       Simple network performance benchmark
#
# Usage-
#
#       PERL DYINT:NETBCK.PRL <drive> {fileCount}
#
# Example-
#
#       PERL DYINT:NETBCK.PRL C:
#       Time = 5 seconds
#
#       PERL DYINT:NETBCK.PRL S: 1000
#       Time = 823 seconds
#
# Index-
#
#       Disk performance; Network; Benchmark
#
# Modifications-
#
#        8-OCT-99       DM / DM / RR    09=
#       - Creation
#
#======
my $drive=shift;
die "--> Drive must be specified" unless length($drive);
my $files=shift||500;

$startTime=time();
for (1..$files){
    open(OUTPUT,'>'.File($_));
    print OUTPUT "Temporary file -- please delete\n";
    close OUTPUT;
}
print "Create Time=",time()-$startTime," seconds\n";


$startTime=time();
for (1..$files){
    open(OUTPUT,File($_));
    close OUTPUT;
}
print "Read Time=",time()-$startTime," seconds\n";

$startTime=time();
for (1..$files){
   unlink File($_);
}
print "Delete Time=",time()-$startTime," seconds\n";


sub File{
    sprintf("${drive}NETBCH_%04d.tmp", at _[0]);
}



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Rod Regier, Software Development           bus: (902)422-1973 x108
Dymaxion Research Ltd., 5515 Cogswell St., fax: (902)421-1267
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1R2 Canada    mailto:RRegier at dymaxion.ca
                                               http://www.dymaxion.ca
"VMS is today what Microsoft wants Windows NT V8.0 to be!" Compaq,
22-Sep-1998