[Samba] Emergency - Samba Performance Consultant Required (2 hours - $500)

[Jamie Yukes]

Hello,

I am in need of a Samba Performance Consultant immediatley.
My box is just not fast enough, and I still have 8 business hours left.

Consultant should recommend:
- fastest Samba options for our setup
- fastest Linux kernel options / sysctl parameters
- fastest Windows client options / registry settings

I expect to pay $500 for 2 hours of your time.  You should be an expert.

Its 12:30 Eastern, and I've been suffering for a couple hours.
If someone can help me immediately, then please respond to my cell
phone 609-335-7103.
Jamie Yukes

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Network is all Gigabit Ethernet.

There are 10 Windows 2000 clients, that poll a public shared directory
for 60KB files, and read them off, no writing.

The Samba server is a Dell Poweredge 2650 Perc 3/DC with a RAID stripe
of 2 fast 144G drives.
/dev/sdb1 on /exports type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail)
/dev/sdb1             274G  137G  137G  51% /exports

Linux gs71 2.6.8-1.521smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 16 09:25:06 EDT 2004 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking --disable-libunwind-exceptions --with-system-zlib
--enable-__cxa_atexit --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)

top - 12:34:13 up 3 days,  3:56,  1 user,  load average: 15.92, 16.29, 16.17
Tasks: 143 total,   1 running, 141 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.2% us, 31.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 14.5% id, 40.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  1.6% si
Mem:   4933508k total,  3182216k used,  1751292k free,   376096k buffers
Swap:  2096472k total,    43284k used,  2053188k free,  2441860k cached

# vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  8  43284 1722884 376200 2472696    0    0    35     9    6    29 47 15 27 11
 0  8  43284 1717188 376228 2478388    0    0  3972 13688 7673  4314 11 22 18 49
 9  5  43284 1709188 376268 2486148    0    0  3744 10896 6239  1890  2 25 26 46
 0 11  43284 1703364 376276 2492120    0    0  3520 15140 5817  2068  2 23 28 47
 8  7  43284 1669416 376496 2523620    0    0  9472     0 5834  4356 31 45  5 19
 1  5  43284 1667476 376508 2525948    0    0  1292 23528 2697  3125 26 21 19 34
 0  8  43284 1666740 376512 2527244    0    0   688  2972 1618  1267 13  8 25 54


smb.conf 
[global]
wins support = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
lpq cache = 30
netbios name = backup
workgroup = gc1
passdb backend = smbpasswd
os level = 33
preferred master = yes
domain master = no
local master = yes
security = user
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\homeserver\%u\winprofile
logon script = logon.cmd
domain admin group = @sysadmin
admin users = @sysadmin
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 102 -s /bin/false -M %u

[tts]
path = /exports/tts
writable = yes
write list = @samba
create mask = 0666  # XXX temporarily until permissions work properly
directory mask = 0775
browsable = yes
share modes = no
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
kernel oplocks = no
blocking locks = no
locking = no