samba - May 2002 - Really high load average. Config problem?

helo

I am running samba on an 800 Duron / 640MB PC2100 DDR Ram / 40 GB IBM Deskstar
with slackware 8 / 2.2.17 Optimized for Duron.

Whenever I copy files to the server, my load average gets to be about 6.0-8.0! 
On the 700 Duron we have at the office where I work, (same specs except it has
768MB of SDRAM and a RAID Array).  Would the reason my box runs so slow be
because its swap drive and the main drive are on the same drive?

I've tried tweaking the config, but nothing seems to make my load average
drop to an acceptable level.

Nick
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How many files have you got in the destination directory ?  Are you browsing
this directory using explorer as you copy ?  We have experienced similar
load averages with people using Sage accounting and leaving thousands of
spool files in directories.

Also might be worth looking at the message posted yesterday entitled 'Poor
Performance',

Cheers
Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Vahalik [mailto:nick@nsanity.com]
Sent: 25 May 2002 06:24
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Really high load average. Config problem?


helo
 
I am running samba on an 800 Duron / 640MB PC2100 DDR Ram / 40 GB IBM
Deskstar with slackware 8 / 2.2.17 Optimized for Duron.
 
Whenever I copy files to the server, my load average gets to be about
6.0-8.0!  On the 700 Duron we have at the office where I work, (same specs
except it has 768MB of SDRAM and a RAID Array).  Would the reason my box
runs so slow be because its swap drive and the main drive are on the same
drive?
 
I've tried tweaking the config, but nothing seems to make my load average
drop to an acceptable level.
 
Nick


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