[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 12:33:59PM -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.
> > 
> 
> Nope, that doesn't make any difference.

Ok, so it isn't the change notify effect James suspected....

You are using the canonicalized case settings and "case sensitive"
settings needed for large directories aren't you.... ?

Jeremy.