SAMBA Really Slow

[David Collier-Brown]

John Supplee wrote:
> It is a MS Visual FoxPro 6.0 application.

	Jackpot!

	Foxpro is a database (well, sort of a database), and
	needs specific settings.

	Try to put its data on a share by itself, and turn
	off oplocks on that share.  If the data has to live
	with other data, use the "veto oplocks" option
	and specify the files that foxpro uses.

	If you leave oplocks on for a flat-file database
	like froxpro, access or the like, then
	- each client will try to cache the whole database
	  file onto a local disk
	- this cache will be invalidated as soon as a second
	  client starts up, and the file will have to be written
	  back to the server.
	It's preferable to not cache the file, so foxpro will 
	just read the particular records it needs to update.

	Now multiply this by 60-odd files and you'll see
	a slight performance problem (;-))

--dave
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