Its in control panel, programs and features, "turn windows features on or off"..indexing service.
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 12:44 -0200, Roberto João Lopes Garcia wrote: > At 11:28 26/10/2007, you wrote: > >I didn't see anyone answer this. We noticed a tremendous slowdown of > >our samba server the minute we put our first Vista client on it due to > >IO. Turns out that by default, Vista has an indexing feature turned on > >that sits there and loops continually indexing every file it can find. > >So if you have mapped drives, and they have a lot of content...this user > >had about 2gb in their home directory, it just murdered our samba > >server. I'm no vista expert, but why you don't see a noticeable > >performance hit when it indexes the local drive of the pc, I have no > >idea, but when it was sitting on that mapped drive, it slowed the samba > >server down for everyone. We turned that feature off on the Vista > >machine, and the problem went away. > > Could you please tell me how to turne that feature off on Vista? > > Thank you > > Roberto > > > > > >On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Issue: Vista reads slowly from a samba server. This appears to pop up > >> periodically here and elsewhere. > >> > >> My samba.conf file has: > >> > >> [homes] > >> ... > >> vfs objects = readahead > >> > >> As suggested elsewhere. > >> > >> Writes are approximately 17-18MB/s which is acceptable. Reads are in > >> the 8MB/s range which is appalingly slow. Using linux smbclient and > >> windows XP clients I can read at 25+MB/s. I've enabled vfs objects = > >> readahead to get better performance in vista. > >> > >> The biggest difference I notice between vista and other clients is that > >> the %iowait is MUCH higher than with the other clients. Logs show the > >> readahead module being loaded but I have no idea if it is actually doing > >> anything. > >> > >> [2007/10/18 08:24:48, 2] lib/module.c:do_smb_load_module(64) > >> Module '/usr/lib/samba/vfs/readahead.so' loaded > >> > >> > >> Server Config: > >> > >> CPU: Amd Athlon 2600+ > >> Ram: 1G > >> Disk: software raid5 across 5 250G ide drives each on dedicated channels > >> Kernel: Linux shakti 2.6.22 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 15:32:01 CDT 2007 i686 > >> GNU/Linux > >> Distro: debian etch > >> > >> Network: Gigabit (though cheapo) > >> > >> Any suggestions on where to go from here? > >> > >> iostat 5 output for the physical devices below: > >> > >> Using a new quad core running Vista client on gigabit > >> - Reads at 8MB/s > >> > >> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > >> 2.81 0.00 9.62 73.95 0.00 13.63 > >> > >> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > >> hda 51.10 3033.27 20.84 15136 104 > >> hde 53.91 3028.46 16.03 15112 80 > >> hdg 49.90 2993.19 19.24 14936 96 > >> hdi 47.49 3036.47 6.41 15152 32 > >> hdk 49.30 2993.19 14.43 14936 72 > >> > >> > >> Using a midrange Laptop running Windows XP on gigabit > >> - Reads at 20MB/s > >> > >> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > >> 3.80 0.00 23.80 14.20 0.00 58.20 > >> > >> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > >> hda 199.80 8366.40 25.60 41832 128 > >> hde 187.20 8380.80 8.00 41904 40 > >> hdg 190.80 8377.60 9.60 41888 48 > >> hdi 178.20 8376.00 16.00 41880 80 > >> hdk 188.80 8377.60 20.80 41888 104 > >> > >> > >> Using same host, smbclient, writing to a firewire drive > >> - Reads at 26MB/s > >> > >> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > >> 7.58 0.00 38.92 30.74 0.00 22.75 > >> > >> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > >> hda 224.75 8693.01 20.76 43552 104 > >> hde 214.37 8713.77 12.77 43656 64 > >> hdg 212.97 8657.88 19.16 43376 96 > >> hdi 195.61 8629.14 23.95 43232 120 > >> hdk 197.01 8688.22 22.36 43528 112 > >> > >> Using dd to firewire drive > >> - Reads at 27MB/s > >> > >> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > >> 6.40 0.00 59.40 34.20 0.00 0.00 > >> > >> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > >> hda 310.80 12844.80 17.60 64224 88 > >> hde 317.80 12820.80 9.60 64104 48 > >> hdg 308.60 12779.20 14.40 63896 72 > >> hdi 294.00 12779.20 9.60 63896 48 > >> hdk 294.80 12796.80 19.20 63984 96 > >> > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
