[Samba] Performance issue on AIX when deleting files in a directory with a large number of files

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:37:50AM -0400, Claus Lund wrote:
> 
> > > sounds like samba is recreating the directory hash for change notifies
> > 
> > It only does that every 30 seconds or so - so I don't think that is
> > the problem (although turning if off might prove me wrong).
> > 
> > Jeremy.
> 
> How can I turn that off?
> I'm willing to do any testing on this issue that you can think off...  :-)

set "change notify timeout = 99999999" (or other large value) in the
[global] section of smb.conf.

Jeremy.