[Samba] Slow Samba AD DC performance compared to Microsoft AD DC

[Rowland penny]

On 27/08/2020 11:47, Sinan Ozturk via samba wrote:
> Hello everyone.
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> I have a problem with performance of Samba AD DC.
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> We have a Laravel application that queries both Microsoft AD DC and Samba AD DC.
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> When a query comes to AD it takes 1 second to complete, however with Samba it can take up to 4-5 seconds.
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> The queries are updating user, creating group and attaching people to groups.
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> Samba Server has more than 6000 users.
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> The VM has 2 CPU 2 GB Ram and Virtio network card running Ubuntu 14.04 with Samba 4.3.11.
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> Is there any way I can speed up Samba server?
>
You could start by updating your OS and Samba version, they are both EOL.

Rowland