[Gllug] Samba optimisation
Walid Shaari
walid at melinux.com
Mon Oct 14 14:54:50 UTC 2002
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:27, Stephen Harker wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Samba Server running here for the company. The 2 accounts staff use
> Sage Line 50 which is one of those DOS based Windows frontend type
> applications. When running reports, it has literally hundreds of files open
> at a time. These files are on a samba share and the end result is PAINFULLY
> slow reports. When run with the files on the local Hard-drive, they are quite
> quick and (perversely), they are quite quick when the files are shared from a
> Windows 95/98 machine. So its a samba/linux file-locking or somesuch issue.
> Is this a known issue? Is there something I can tweak in smb.conf?
Try to look at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/ textdocs/Speed.txt and
/usr/share/doc/packages/samba/ textdocs/Speed2.txt
I do not have a samba installed to check them!
Walid
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