abysmal performance with small files (2.0.6)

[David Collier-Brown]

Jonathan Rozes wrote:

> Server has 1280 files, 8192 bytes each, all in a single directory.
> Filenames are all lowercase and do not have any .3 extension (just
> lowercase letters and numbers in the names).
> 
> With NT4 Server:
> 
> Time to read directory via explorer: ~8 secs
> Time to copy file set to local disk: ~23 secs
> 
> With Samba: 
> Time to read directory via explorer: ~3 secs
> Time to copy file set to local disk: ~139 secs

[And playing with case preservation options had no effect]

And on Solaris 8, Samba 2.0.6, with identical fileset,
	Time to mget files to local disk: 56.27s
	Time to cp files on same disk: 50.30s

Looks like a Samba-vs-NTexplorer mismatch to me: can
you capture the packets with tcpdump-smb and continue
this discussion on the mailing-list?

--dave
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