[Samba] Roaming Profiles Load Very Slowly

[L.P.H. van Belle]

I agree, roming is very slow with lots of small files.

a tip i can give everybody, disable java caching.
i had a user with 6500+ files in java cache dir which made
loggin in very slow.

Louis

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>[mailto:samba-bounces+belle=bazuin.nl at lists.samba.org] Namens 
>Scott Lovenberg
>Verzonden: woensdag 28 mei 2008 9:15
>Aan: beheer at bazuin.nl
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles Load Very Slowly
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>L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> Also try to set you nic fixed speeds.
>>
>> and your profile is 1.1. MB ?? thats very very small.
>> a normal profile is about 10-25 Mb.
>>
>> Louis
>>
>>   
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>Namens Greg Koch
>>> Verzonden: dinsdag 27 mei 2008 17:40
>>> Aan: Adam Williams
>>> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Roaming Profiles Load Very Slowly
>>>
>>> The profiles are 1.1MB (Just the default files and a few other 
>>> things to 
>>> test with).  The server is 1000MB and the clients are 
>100MB.  This is 
>>> why it has baffled me so much!
>>>
>>> Adam Williams wrote:
>>>     
>>>> how big are the profiles?  what speeds are the NICs in the 
>>>>       
>>> server and 
>>>     
>>>> client PCs operating at?
>>>>
>>>>       
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>>   
>Also, I've found that roaming profiles seem to choke when you've got 
>lots of very small files.  Those files are usually in local settings 
>under the profile, but not always.  I had the back end running 
>on top of 
>reiserfs over gigabit, so I think the bottleneck is Windows processing 
>all of them.  However, I don't have any objective data whatsoever to 
>back these claims up; take them with a grain of salt. 
>
>What kind of times are you seeing?  Is it possible you have 
>stuff timing 
>out for various reasons (permissions, broken links, name 
>resolution, etc.)?
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