[Samba] samba 3.4 performance tuning

Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Fri Aug 21 08:44:54 MDT 2009


Adam Tauno Williams kirjoitti:
> 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.'

Problem was local anvirus and firewall product on Windows workstation.


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Eero


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