[Samba] poor performance - multiuser fileserver database (ms-access)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:42:40AM -0400, daniel arjona wrote:
> Samba:  3.014a-Debian
> 
> OS: Debian 3.1 Release 1 Sarge
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = REVLON
> netbios name = FILE_SRV
> security = user
> encrypt passwords = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> unix password sync = yes
> socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> hosts deny = ALL
> hosts allow = 172.18.40. 127.0.0.1
> debug level = 1
> create mask = 0777
> directory mask = 0775
> read raw = no
> write cache size = 262144

Don't mess with "read raw" or "write cache size".
There is no need to mess with these unless you are
addressing specific known problems. This "voodoo"
config stuff bugs me :-). I can tell you exactly
why you'd need to set these things and a Debian
Sarge system isn't one of them.

Jeremy.