[Samba] Oplocks - when do they help

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:21:52PM +0300, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> I googled around and the general wisdom seems to be that
> oplocks provide a performance gain if files are accessed
> by a single client at a time (that is, if the oplock does
> not break).
> 
> What I can't figure out is what test can show this
> performance gain. I mean, theoretically, document-editing
> applications (Word,excel) save and load whole files and
> hence do not benefit from oplocks. Applications which do
> modify portions of a file usually flush buffers to
> maintain transactional integrity and hence should not
> benefit from oplocks either.
> 
> So, how can I demonstrate the benefit of oplocks?

Use an Access .mdb file.

Volker