Performance-problem with DOS-Progs

Gustavo Courault cuchapo at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 11 08:30:05 GMT 2001


Hi:
I have the same problem with MS-DOS clients and with Linux boxes running 
DOSEMU, but not with Windows clients.

There are a mistery here....nobody know the cause and I seach in several 
places, but I dont find anything.

Sorry for my bad English, I m a Spanish talking people.


El Mar 11 Dic 2001 09:44, escribió:
> Hello.
>
> We have servers running Samba v2.2.1a and v2.2.2. These Servers provide
> DOS-Programs for the networks. These programs seem to run in normal speed,
> but sometimes they make a break for a few secounds until a minute. After
> that break all runns as usual. How can this be explained?
>
> Here ist my smb.conf:
>
> [global]
>  workgroup = DOMAIN
>  encrypt passwords = Yes
>  map to guest = Bad User
>  null passwords = Yes
>  keepalive = 10
>  logon script = login.bat
>  domain logons = Yes
>  os level = 128
>  socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>  preferred master = Yes
>  domain master = Yes
>  local master = Yes
>  security = user
>  wins support = Yes
>  kernel oplocks = yes
>  time server = Yes
>  log level = 0
>  printing = lprng
>  printcap name = /etc/printcap
>  add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /dev/false -M
> %u character set = ISO8859-1
>  client code page = 850
>
> The single shares are defined like:
>
> [DOS-Prog]
>  path = /data/DOS-Prog
>  writeable = Yes
>  create mask = 0777
>  directory mask = 0777
>  oplocks = no
>
> oplock = no is needed, because we run a DOS Database called Btrieve. If we
> allow oplocks all progs crash very often and very badly!
>
> May there be a problem with many files in one directory?
> One of these progs has all data files in one dir, sometimes up to 70.000
> files!!!!! Could this be the probelm?
>
> Many thanks for your help!!!!!!
>
> Andre Klocke




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