On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:39 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:24:05AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > we have a small NAS-Box here in our office, running Linux 2.6.13 and > > Samba 3 (exactly version string is not avalilable for me at moment). > > > > Is there a limit, how many files samba will store in one folder? We > > recognize a massive CPU-Load of the smbd-process, when accessing a > > folder which stores round about 60 000 small text-files. > > > > Is this a samba-Limit or a bug? The kernel and samba is compiled by the > > NAS-manufactur, so no cimpiler-options are available for me. > > There are no hard coded limits, only what the OS restricts. > However, storing large numbers of files in a folder is a bad > idea unless Samba is set up specially to do this. See here : > > http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/HOWTO/Samba-LargeDirectory-HOWTO > > for details.
IIRC ext3 has a (compile time changeable) limit of 32k files per dir by default ... Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba