[Samba] samba-ad tuning

Marcos Ariel Negrini mnegrini at afip.gob.ar
Thu Jul 1 18:52:41 UTC 2021


Hello:
I am doing stress testing with samba4(4.13.*); using python I generate a 
batch of 20000 users in an AD that already has 20000 users generated. 
The average time for the generation of the first users of the batch is 
less than 1 second... and this time becomes almost 3 seconds when it is 
reaching the 20000 users (that is with almost 40000 users in the AD). I 
have been monitoring the server resources (and repeating the tests with 
different amount of cores and memory in the vm, for example 4 cores and 
4GB of memory, duplicating these values, etc) and my conclusion is that 
increasing the cores does not decrease the time for the generation of a 
user, but it does improve the loading time of the complete batch, and 
the memory consumption does not modify considerably even if the workload 
varies. I detected that the i/o times to disk increase according to the 
load. My question is if there is any document or recommendation to tune 
configurations in samba that allow me to improve these times (for 
example dump the ldap base to memory or increase cache sizes, etc).
greetings
Marcos Negrini



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