[Samba] samba 3.4 performance tuning

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Aug 20 14:56:06 MDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:44 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams kirjoitti:
> > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:06 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> >> Any hints for samba performance tuning parameters in smb.conf?
> >> current parameters:
> >> First connection (drive map) from windows machines is a bit slow, maybe 
> >> disabling ipv6 helps for that?
> > Why not suss out where the delay is before changing things?  See
> > "Premature Optimization". Watch with wireshark and see if you see [long]
> > pauses in the exchange.  My guess is that you'll find pauses where the
> > client [the Windows PC] isn't doing anything - which Samba can't help.
> Possibly or then wait is caused by missing dns name or the local virus 
> scanner product?

Yep. Very often the later.

>  Anyway, need to fire the wireshark on work tomorrow.'




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