On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:43:02PM -0400, Marcello Melfi wrote: > > I am performing some benchmarks that will reflect the way I am going to use > Samba. Basically, I am copying/creating, via a simple C++ program running on > the client box, the same 50 K-Bytes file about 10,000 times on the Samba > share. Of course, the file is renamed with a sequence number so that at the > end there are 10,000 newly created files on the share. As you might have > guessed by now, I am not using Samba to simply replace a file server for > windows users. I am using Samba so that a windows application (running in > the background) can export files to another unix applications. NFS could > have been an alternative, but Samba will integrate this export mechanism in > a more transparent fashion.
Are you creating all these files in the same directory ? If so, that's your answer for why things are slow. Samba has to provide a case-insensitive lookup for a case-sensitive filesystem. Every time you try and create a file that doesn't exist Samba has to do a directory scan to see if the file exists in a different case. This is slow. Fix your app to create into different directories and you'll find it gets much faster. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
