[Samba] Incredibly slow Roaming Profiles

Damian Gerow damian at sentex.net
Tue Jul 8 13:14:44 GMT 2003


Thus spake Nathan Ehresman (nehresma at css.tayloru.edu) [08/07/03 09:04]:
> We had this problem too in a lab setting.  The issue for us was large My
> Documents, Application Data, and Desktop directories.  You said your
> profile is 800k -- is that the NTUSER.DAT registry hive or does that
> including all the folders that roam as well?  My guess is that the roaming
> special folders are quite large.  If this is the case, let me know and I
> can give you some pointers on some ways to speed things up.

Nope, the whole profile is 800k (or less) -- these are just the bare
profiles right now.  du -k gives me:

    760     ./damian

However, I'm more than willing to get some pointers, as they *will* increase
in size the more they're used.

  - Damian



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