[Samba] Samba very, VERY slow ...

[John H Terpstra]

Joseph,

I'd like to thank you for your diligent attention to detail and
particularly for reporting your findings. This is a real gem of a
contribution that may save someone else many days of frustration.

Cheers,
John T.


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joseph Healy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had similar, very baffleing symptoms with MYOB Premier opening and
> accessing it's datafiles.
>
> operations on the file would take between 40 and 45 seconds.
>
> It turned out that it was a printer monitor program running on the
> clients causing the problems. Looking at the logs, we saw them coming
> through with pauses of about 1 second between groups.
>
> Stopping the monitor software resulted in the networks access at normal
> (quick) speed. Restarting the program caused the speed to slow down
> again. The printer was a cannon lbp810 and the relevant task was
> something like CAPON (not sure on spelling). The monitor software
> displayed a printing now dialog on the client when they printed.
>
> We only discovered this by starting with a clean install of windows and
> trying the app at every step of the installation of other software
> process. (had to do this many times)
>
> Moral of the story, check everything (other software included)!
>
> Hope it is not something like this (it will be painful to find)
>
> Joe Healy
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:59:35AM +0200, Eric Maisonobe wrote:
> > Hello !
> >
> > I've installed serveral servers under Linux in my association with samba on
> > it, without any problem.
> >
> > But, for the latest application we need to use, samba has to share about 800
> > borland data files.
> >
> > All goes right, but the systeme (P3-800Mhz-256Mo RAM for 8 users) is very,
> > VERY slow (about 40 second to open the application).
> >
> > I've take a look at the system use, even when a client open a session, and :
> > -> the processor is use about ... 3% (97%free) !!!
> > -> Mem : 23Mo used...233Mo free !!!
> > -> average load : about 0,01 !!!
> >
> > I've put    log level = 0, correct wins server adress, socket options =
> > TCP_NODELAY
> >
> > and my share is :
> > [c]
> >    comment = Disk C
> >    path = /home/c
> >    browseable = yes
> >    admin users = guest nobody # I know, it's bad ;-)) but requiered by the
> > appli
> >    writable = yes
> >    public = yes
> >    create mode = 777
> >
> >
> > Any help would be welcome !
> >
> > Eric MAISONOBE
> >
> >
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org