Hi All I have recently started Samba on our Linux RedHat 7 server (P3-1000/512MB with hardware SCSI RAID-1 on a Ultra-160 Adaptec card) - to serve about 15 Win9X PC's (replacing an overused Win95 machine's D drive!) The only thing is, users have started to complain that opening folders from their Win9X machines is much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a noticable delay between clicking on a folder and it being loaded (three/four seconds) whereas before (opening from the network-shared Win95 machine), it was pretty much instant. Any ideas? What do I need to post? All user directories are mounted in their Linux user directories (/home/user/samba/..) Samba 2.0.7 / Kernel 2.2.16-22 Cheers John
Hi John, A couple of easy things to check - 1. has the number of files in these folders increased dramatically (like in the 1000's)? lots of files in a folder will increase the time it takes to open it. 2. have you recently had a problem where you have enabled some level of debug logging? check log level parameter in smb.conf file, make it 0 for fastest access, if it is not already.... Directory parsing DOES seem to be slower on samba than on it's windows cousins, esp. if there is a large number of files in the directory you are opening. But 3-4 seconds seems a bit excessive... Don -----Original Message----- From: John P [mailto:john@pmbbs.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:32 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Samba - slow browsing/folder opening Hi All I have recently started Samba on our Linux RedHat 7 server (P3-1000/512MB with hardware SCSI RAID-1 on a Ultra-160 Adaptec card) - to serve about 15 Win9X PC's (replacing an overused Win95 machine's D drive!) The only thing is, users have started to complain that opening folders from their Win9X machines is much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a noticable delay between clicking on a folder and it being loaded (three/four seconds) whereas before (opening from the network-shared Win95 machine), it was pretty much instant. Any ideas? What do I need to post? All user directories are mounted in their Linux user directories (/home/user/samba/..) Samba 2.0.7 / Kernel 2.2.16-22 Cheers John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hi All,> The only thing is, users have started to complain > that opening folders from their Win9X machines is > much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a > noticable delay between clicking on a folder and > it being loaded..Had a chance to do a bit more checking on this. When it comes to opening folders from a Windows box, the following is noticed: - Opening a folder with 3,300 small GIF files takes roughly 8 seconds - Opening an empty folder takes roughly 4 seconds
Hi John, NOPE, that's definitely bad performance; WAY out of the ordinary. Try this for comparison to see if it's samba, or the network; from the same pc that you are being told it'll take 1/2 hour to copy the gif files, try doing an ftp from that pc to the server, and see how long it takes over ftp; if ftp is still way faster than samba from the same pc (therefore the same network path), then we're talking about something in samba... Hope this helps, Don -----Original Message----- From: John P [mailto:john@pmbbs.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:48 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Samba - slow browsing/folder opening Hi All,> The only thing is, users have started to complain > that opening folders from their Win9X machines is > much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a > noticable delay between clicking on a folder and > it being loaded..Had a chance to do a bit more checking on this. When it comes to opening folders from a Windows box, the following is noticed: - Opening a folder with 3,300 small GIF files takes roughly 8 seconds - Opening an empty folder takes roughly 4 seconds