On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 08:19 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:12:19AM +1300, steve wrote: > > Has anyone any tips on improving samba performance with debian lenny? > > > > I've set up a raid 0 partition on a couple of new WD 1TB disks, > > formatting the majority of it as a single reiserfs partition. I must > > admit I should probably have set the blocksize to something other than > > the default at the time, but now it's well populated, changing stuff > > like that is going to be a big problem. > > > > Performance is pretty poor to put it politely - primary use is a single > > samba share with a very large directory structure, millions of files. > > Can anyone suggest any improvements that can stop it being that slow? I > > regularly see 50+% in waitio. > > Do you have individual directories with huge numbers of > files? This is a known performance problem with a > workaround: > > case sensitive = yes > preserve case = no > short preserve case = no > > Volker I tried this, and ended up woth 2 pc's that could only see the top level of the shaare. So I reverted it, and they *still* can only see one level down.
Is this some known xp weirdness? Most of the domain are fine. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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