[Samba] Friendly Reminder: Huge number of small files performance regression from 3.5.16 to 4.6.5 with identical smb.conf

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jul 14 17:49:08 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 07:44:38PM +0200, awl1 wrote:
> Hello Jeremy,
> 
> many thanks for getting back to me! :-)
> 
> Am 14.07.2017 um 19:33 schrieb Jeremy Allison:
> >It would be quicker for you to help I'm afraid. As you have nicely
> >identified the SMB2_QUERY_DIRECTORY as cause of the regression,
> >can you look into the wireshark traces and tell me what info level
> >the SMB1 client is asking for and what info level the SMB2 client
> >is asking for ? If the SMB2 client is also asking for security
> >descriptors, this may be part of it.
> I will try to do my best in helping you, but I will need more
> information, as I am not yet clear what exactly you want me to look
> for in Wireshark:
> 
> How did you derive SMB2_QUERY_DIRECTORY from the information I
> listed? For me, the main "Write" bottleneck pointed to SMB2 "Find",
> how do I get to SMB2_QUERY_DIRECTORY from there?
> 
> Index               Procedure  Calls  Min SRT (s)  Max SRT (s)  Avg
> SRT (s)  Sum SRT (s)
> Find                       14   1607     0.001383     0.746684
> 0.193413   310.814294
> 
> So in order to check I should open both traces and compare exactly
> what information? It would be great if you can describe what I have
> to do in the Wireshark application in as much detail as possible...

First try fixing the smb.conf in the way I reviewed. Then
let's look.



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