[Samba] Directory listing with 11k files very slow to list

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> | I have a samba server which has a directory with 11764 files. (The
> | program stores information about jobs and each job has 3 files,
> | nothing I can do about it).
> | When I do a listing of that directory using smbclient, it takes 15+
> |  seconds to complete, same thing on Windows XP.
> | Does anyone have any ideas on how I can speed this up?

Three letters - XFS.  We had terrible problems like this, we ditched
ext2/3 and moved to XFS.  Things are much better now.