[Samba] massive performance problems if transferring many small files

[Steffen Kauka]

> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:12, steffen.k at gmx.at wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If I try to transfer about 27.000 small HTML-Files from my Windows-PC to
> our
> > central SAMBA-Server I'll get  massive performance problems. First the
> > performance looks ok but after a time period of 3 minutes it goes slow
> do
> wn -
> > appr. one file per second will be transferred. Has anyone an idea what I
> can tune
> > to avoid this annoying behaviour.
> 
> > - samba version 2.2.8a (64bit compiled)
> 
> Are all/many of these files in the same directory?

Yes, it's a flat directory hierarchy.

> I would suggest that Samba 3.0 might handle this situation better, or in
> 2.2 set 'mangle method = hash2'.  

I'll try it.... 

Are there any Solaris kernel variables they interfere with this behaviour
and needs to be adjusted?

Regards,
Steffen