Hello,
I am experiencing a performance problem while accessing a large EXCEL
file (?), 20 Mb, getting it from a samba particular share.
System & Os
=========Serveur : PII 350 MB 64 Mb 10 Go Eth 100Mb
Client : PII 333 128 Mb 6,4Go Eth 100 Mb
server & client are alone on the same 100Mb switch
I am using a LINUX box as server, running Linux 2.0.36, samba 2.0.2
(The same problem occurs with LINUX 2.2.5 and samba 2.0.3)
I tried the client with Win95 ( Last release for winsock ), Win98, NT4
server .
(Same problem ...)
The file is stored as : /work/user1/level1/level2/bigfile.xls
Setting the share(s):
===============[share1]
path = "/work"
...
[share2]
path = "/work/user1/level1/level2"
...
Testing access time from Windows.
=========================Using share1 as remote drive, it took about 7 minutes
to load an be
ready to work with bigfile.xls
Using share2, it took only 17 secondes !.
I tried what I could with oplock, socket options, kernel oplock, ... ->
nothing has changed.
I suspect a lock problem ( using fstat ? ),
Can anyone help me ?
(Sorry for my english).