Hi :-)
At one of our customers we've just replaced a NT server with a linux
box (2.0.35) and samba (1.9.18p10). The workstations are connected
via a 100 MBit Ethernet.
After installing linux and samba one application had a great LOSS in
performance. The program uses a >16 MB MS-Access database. From one
workstation it ran great, with two workstations it slowed down. With
four or more it was unusable.
Playing with smb.conf we've tracked this down to a locking problem.
With 'fake oplocks = yes' everything worked fine (except that we
of cause had database consistency problems).
After some wasted hours I gave up and asked a friend who knows a lot
more about networks and C programming than I do. He looked over the
samba code and found out: In local.h the lock retry timeout is set to
100 ms. He told us, this would be to long for a fast network.
We changed the value to 5 ms and recompiled. -> Success!
Was this the right way to solve the problem? Or does anyone know a
better solution?
Ciao
Marcus
* We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over
* time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
* (Ellen Ullman, "The dumbing-down of programming")
