Samba - slow browsing/folder opening

MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) don_mccall at hp.com
Thu Apr 5 13:25:56 GMT 2001


Hi John,
A couple of easy things to check -
1. has the number of files in these folders increased dramatically (like in
the 1000's)?
   lots of files in a folder will increase the time it takes to open it.
2. have you recently had a problem where you have enabled some level of
debug logging?
   check log level parameter in smb.conf file, make it 0 for fastest access,
if it is 
   not already....

Directory parsing DOES seem to be slower on samba than on it's windows
cousins, esp. if 
there is a large number of files in the directory you are opening.  But 3-4
seconds seems
a bit excessive...
Don 
-----Original Message-----
From: John P [mailto:john at pmbbs.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:32 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Samba - slow browsing/folder opening


Hi All

I have recently started Samba on our Linux RedHat 7 server (P3-1000/512MB
with hardware SCSI RAID-1 on a Ultra-160 Adaptec card) - to serve about 15
Win9X PC's (replacing an overused Win95 machine's D drive!)

The only thing is, users have started to complain that opening folders from
their Win9X machines is much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a
noticable delay between clicking on a folder and it being loaded (three/four
seconds) whereas before (opening from the network-shared Win95 machine), it
was pretty much instant.

Any ideas? What do I need to post? All user directories are mounted in their
Linux user directories (/home/user/samba/..)

Samba 2.0.7 / Kernel 2.2.16-22

Cheers
John


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