Samba Performance

[Robert Seese]

I upgraded to 2.02 and still having problems. I am really in some trouble
here anything you could suggest just to speed things up would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks again!
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 4:44 PM
To: Robert Seese
Subject: Re: Samba Performance


> One thing I should mention is that during the file copy I noticed
> performance problems with directories that had several files in them. I
> thought the problem was with windows nt but the processes that seem to be
> running the slowest hit these directories. By several files I mean 35,000+
..
> The size of the files does not seem to matter 1k or 5m both are slow.
> Sorry for all the emails,
> Robert

Ah - a directory containing 35,000 files !

Samba will probably be very slow on such a
beast, as it has to do multiple operations on
directories in order to provide the case
insensitivity that Windows requires on a UNIX
system.

Firstly, I would recommend you upgrade to the
Red Hat 5.2 Samba 2.0.2 rpm available on the
Samba ftp site. This has several bug fixes over
2.0.0 that may help.

If you still have problems with that version
of 2.0.2 then can you do an strace on one of
the processes that is sucking up the CPU so I
can see what system calls it is performing ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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