NetBench fails when using oplocks

[Jeremy Allison]

Nigel Williams wrote:
> 
> We have been trying to get performance results for Samba using NetBench.
> 
> When oplocks were not enabled the performance was poor.  The throughput
> was approx 70% of that of a pc based NFS client.
> When oplocks were enabled the test failed to complete.
> 
> The version of Samba was 1.9.18p2
> The server was a sparc station 20.
> 
> The version of NetBench we were using is 5.01
> The test was the default test (using the disk mix suite)
> The number of clients was 2.
> 

Nigel,

	What were the errors you got ? I have run NetBench
5.01 on a Solaris server with 60 clients and NetBench
completed successfully (reliably and with good results).

There are several 'tricks' in using NetBench that the
authors recommend than can make a great deal of difference
between success and failure. Are you doing a reinstall
between each run (believe it or not this is recommended).

What were the client OS's, what was the controler OS ?
(The best mix seems to be NT controler, Win95 clients).

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.

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