[Samba] Files That Constantly Change

[Cody Jarrett]

Sorry, here is the share definition:
[Share]
    valid users = @company
    path = /home/Share
    writable = yes
    directory mask = 2770
    create mask = 760
    oplocks = false
    level2 oplocks = false
    dos filemode = yes
On Sep 24, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Cody Jarrett wrote:

> Does anybody have any tuning tips for a samba 3.0.23 server that is  
> acting as a PDC with ldap backend and file server. The problem I'm  
> having is a certain program runs in XP workstations that accesses  
> files on one of the shares, it apparently opens lots of files and  
> is constantly making changes to them. When I run top, I see each  
> smbd process for each workstations is consuming about 30% of the  
> cpu and there are 3 workstations, the owner for the processes is  
> the domain user logged onto the workstation. I have the same setup  
> at a different site running samba 3.0.10 with just a smbpasswd  
> backend and each workstation consumes about 2% of the cpu at most.  
> These are in the samba logs for the workstation and are constantly  
> being output:
>
> [2007/09/21 10:17:47, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1091)
>   Transaction 17604 of length 150
> [2007/09/21 10:17:47, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(886)
>   switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 4972) conn 0x80b9b50
> [2007/09/21 10:17:47, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2findfirst(1359)
>   call_trans2findfirst: dirtype = 22, maxentries = 1366,  
> close_after_first=1, close_if_end = 1 requires_resume_key = 1 level  
> = 0x104, max_data_bytes = 16384
> [2007/09/21 10:17:47, 3] smbd/dir.c:dptr_create(491)
>   creating new dirptr 256 for path Share, expect_close = 1
>
>
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Cody Jarrett
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