[Gllug] Samba optimisation

[Daniel Andersson]

> On Monday 14 October 2002 3:54 pm, Walid Shaari wrote:
> > 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!
> Cool. Thanks. Couldn't find that particular file but I found the tweaks
> (Oplocks etc...). But they have made very little difference. :-(
> Back to the drawing board.
> Steve

could it be the actual harddrive in the server?

scsi or ide?
raid?

/ d


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