[Gllug] Samba optimisation

[Daniel Andersson]

> > could it be the actual harddrive in the server?
> >
> > scsi or ide?
> > raid?
>
> Well I don't think so. It's a SCSI HD (Ultra 160 Drive on an older 40 M/s
card
> - No RAID) but it's not really ticking over that much during the running
of
> the report. And it works real quick on an old 95 machine with an IDE disk
:-/
> But I'll look into it further...

the 95-machine, is it closer (ie network-wise) to the report-machine?
ie could there be a problem with the network?

or could it be that it opens that many files that the filesystem might have
a problem
which fs are you using?

can you share the [global]-paragraf of your smb.conf?

/ d


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