I agree - after further testing I am back at the old transfer speeds,
so most likely not related to the update.
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[SRU] samba Too many files are currently in use.
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@Martin:
Don't know exactly what you mean with regression. Before installation
of the patch transfer speed of the 2GB file started at approx. 119MB/sec
and quickly dropped to approx 75-80MB/sec (and stayed there until the
file is copied). With the patch copying of the 2GB file still starts at
Had the same problem described above (copying folder with 77k files from
windows 7 64Bit to ubuntu 9.10 server ended quickly in error message
too many files open...).
Installed the -proposed package manually (sudo aptitude install samba
/karmik-proposed). After samba restart copying same folder
One further observation (but don't know whether that is related to the
new package): The transfer speed drops dramatically after a while and is
now down to 3.6-5MB/s (as shown in the details of the windows-copy-
window) after approx 40.000 files (mostly small html files) have been
copied.
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