[Samba] Poor performance with Mac OS X Panther clients

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 03:34, Nathan R. Valentine wrote:
> > I will test the results from both Windows and Mac OS X clients with the
> > data hosted on a Windows server to measure the results. From experience,
> > I expect that the Mac OS X clients will still perform worse but not to
> > the same degree as when the data was hosted on Samba. 
> 
> Turns out that we are seeing similar CPU spikes on the server whether
> the server is a Windows box of a *nix box running Samba. To me, this
> would indicate that this is a problem with the Mac OS X client. Based on
> the packet dumps, I would say that the Mac OS X Samba system is doing
> the the directory contents lookups in a very inefficient manner. Since
> OS X is running a version of Samba... Anyone have any tips? 

Actually, the OSX client is the smbfs originally from FreeBSD.  (And
unrelated to the Linux smbfs).  

Andrew Bartlett

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