[Samba] aio_pthread on Debian?

[Gardiner, Alex (alex.gardiner@canterbury.ac.uk)]

Hello Volker,

Thank you for the reply.

I've seen your name mentioned several times against this topic :-)

>What effect do you have in mind exactly? Read/write is done
>asynchronously these days without that module as long as the
>build detected pthreads.

This is the thing... it looks like the Debian packages (stable + back port) are built without the --with-aio-support (at least according to smbd -b)

In this case I am streaming relatively large video files in my home lab (120mbps each).

I find that windows struggles with 2-3 streams at once, where the same hardware running OS X (via afp) is smooth - so I am relatively sure the workload is within the means of my network/disks/client.

What I found odd was that setting aio read/write size = 1 didn't bother testparm, although apparently Debian samba is apparently not compiled for it? Perhaps what I'm asking is how to know if samba is really doing everything as async? I expect it is possible to find out with a bit of work..

Thanks again.


From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE>
Sent: 10 March 2015 15:51
To: Gardiner, Alex (alex.gardiner at canterbury.ac.uk)
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] aio_pthread on Debian?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 01:24:28PM +0000, Gardiner, Alex (alex.gardiner at canterbury.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hello list,
>
>
> I am looking to enable samba aio on my Wheezy test box (I have version 4.1.17 from back ports).
>
>
> The output of smbd -b shows that the stable packages for my distro are not compiled using --with-aio-support. It appears that without recompiling I can use vfs objects = aio_pthread to achieve a similar effect?
>

What effect do you have in mind exactly? Read/write is done
asynchronously these days without that module as long as the
build detected pthreads.

Volker

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