[Samba] Office (2003) saving excel sheet takes VERY long..

[Stéphane Purnelle]

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Hi,

Why you disable the getwd cache parameter ?

man of smb.conf for getwd cache parameter :

This is a tuning option. When this is enabled a caching algorithm will
be used to reduce the time taken for getwd() calls. This can have a
significant impact on performance.



Max Riedel a écrit :

> Hi! Maybe you can help me, would be very nice! I'm new to the list
> and I'm very glad that it exists... A week ago we migrated to samba
> and since then it's taking very long to save a 1,8MB excel
> document. On fast ethernet it takes us about 10 seconds, on
> wireless lan it can take up to a minute, although transferring the
> same amount of data from the very same machine, that is connected
> via 802.11g, to samba (by copying a file) takes only about
> 3-4seconds over the wireless connection. We use Excel in Office
> 2003 with SP1. Machine is a WinXP Pro SP2. It looks as if it was
> Excel's fault, but it also seems to be much slower now since the
> files are stored on the samba server.
>
> Is there any way to enhance Excel's writing or maybe the caching on
> the server?Most of the files are smaller than 300kbytes, but this
> particular one is ~1,8MB and used VERY frequently.
>
> Samba version is 3.0.20
>
> System's running on an Athlon XP 2.400+, 512MB ram, Redhat
> Enterprise WS 4
>
> The smb.conf looks like:
>
> [global]
>
> netbios name = smb
>
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
>
> server string = Samba Server
>
> hosts allow = 192.168.0.
>
> guest account = guest
>
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
> max log size = 500
>
> security = user
>
> ;oplocks = no ;level2 oplocks = no
>
> encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> IPTOS_LOWDELAY
>
> ;getwd cache = yes ;dead time = 15 ;read raw = yes ;write raw = yes
>
>
> interfaces = 192.168.0.102/24
>
> remote announce = 192.168.0.255
>
> local master = yes
>
> os level = 200
>
> preferred master = yes
>
> name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>
> wins support = yes
>
> dns proxy = no
>
> preserve case = no default case = lower case sensitive = no
>
>
> idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
> template shell = /bin/false winbind use default domain = no
>
> [shared] comment = Temporary file space path = /smb/shared public =
> yes writeable = yes create mask = 0640 directory mask = 750 force
> create mode = 020 force directory mode = 020 guest ok = yes force
> group = users
>
> [daten] comment = Root path = /smb/daten valid users = @verwaltung
> write list = @verwaltung force group = users create mask = 0640
> directory mask = 750 force create mode = 020 force directory mode =
> 020
>
> [folder1] path = /smb/daten/folder1 valid users = @users writeable
> = yes public = yes force group = users create mask = 0640 directory
> mask = 750 force create mode = 020 force directory mode = 020
>
> [folder2] path = /smb/daten/folder2/ valid users = @users writeable
> = no write list = silvia, @verwaltung force group = users create
> mask = 0640 directory mask = 750 force create mode = 020 force
> directory mode = 020
>
>
>
> Thanks alot for any help!



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Stéphane Purnelle <stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be>
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