[NCSA-discuss] windows/explore/samba - why so slow?

[Brian Henning]

Nothing but a wild guess:  Maybe something strange in the directory 
structure on the slower machine?  Like a recursive symlink or something, 
that might cause thrashing while Windows chases down directory trees to 
build thumbnails?  Of course, beyond fsck, I wouldn't know how to check 
for such things..  or how something like that would come to happen in 
the first place.

My curiosity is certainly piqued.

~B

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
>> http://www.gatago.com/linux/samba/14535950.html
>>
>> Do you see it from both Explorer and "My Network Places"? Or just the
>> latter?
> 
> I have two samba servers running the same samba (3.0.3) compiled and 
> installed at the same time in two different locations, but designed to 
> be as similar as possible (directories mounted etc), so that there would 
> in effect be only one system to maintain
> 
> same winxp laptop
> 
> on one system the directories from the samba server are listed quickly. 
> This is a dual 200MHz machine.
> 
> on the other, the top level of directories are served fast, but with 
> each level you go down, they're listed slower, till about 3 levels down, 
> you don't get a listing. This is with both Explorer and Network places. 
> On the samba server, smbd is running 100% CPU. This is a single CPU 
> 133MHz machine. Even though it has only 1/3 the MHz of the other 
> machine, I can't see that you'd need 100% CPU for minutes at a time 
> corresponding to many 10s of Mbytes of file transfer, just to list a 
> directory.
> 
> :-(
> 
> The server that works fine doesn't have any of the suggestions posted here.
> 
> This needs some thinking.
> 
> thanks Joe
> 

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