[Samba] Slow reply to "smbclient -NL localhost" : strace

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:32:39 +0100
Gilles via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 05/11/2024 11:12, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > I took a look at your strace again and I noticed that the hostname
> > was 'sheevaplug', now I can only really think of one reason why
> > such a hostname would be used, if it was an actual Sheevaplug.
> >
> > If this is a Sheevaplug, then that could be your problem.
> >  From memory, the Sheevaplug had a single core ARM CPU, running at
> > just over 1GHZ with about 512MB of memory. To be honest I haven't
> > heard of one of these for years, they were supplanted by the
> > Raspberry pi, a much more capable computer, that has only got
> > better and better.
> 
> I've used it for years on a home network, and it worked fine with
> Debian 11. That problem only appeared after I installed Debian 12
> (Linux 6.1.0-26-marvell #1 Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) armv5tel
> GNU/Linux).
> 
> "strace -r smbclient -NL localhost" shows the two locations where
> it's hanging when listing the shares:

If you add up all time shown in your strace output, it is a very short
time, a lot less than half a second.
I am not sure where your 'time' is disappearing to, but I do not think
it has anything to do with Samba. I feel that if it was a Samba
problem, then this mailing list and the internet would be awash with
cries of help.

Rowland