Hi! I would like to use samba to share a directory with about 1.5 Mio Files. The environment is HP/UX 11.11 on a HP9000 (4 procs, 4GB RAM), vxfs 3.5, EMC Symmetrix and samba 2.09. When I share the directory via samba and access it from a Win2k machine, the Windows explorer hangs and smbd spawns about 15 processes that use quite much cpu time. After 30 minutes I killed the processes and the Windows explorer... Doing an ls -l on the directory only takes 2 minutes. Does anybody know how to tune samba to share large directories? I already increased shared mem size to 20MB and was surprised that smbstatus still reportet 1MB (yes, I restartet smbd...) Can anybody help me? Manfred
> Hi! > > I would like to use samba to share a directory with about 1.5 Mio Files. > The environment is HP/UX 11.11 on a HP9000 (4 procs, 4GB RAM), vxfs 3.5, > EMC Symmetrix and samba 2.09. > > When I share the directory via samba and access it from a Win2k machine, > the Windows explorer hangs and smbd spawns about 15 processes that use > quite much cpu time. After 30 minutes I killed the processes and the > Windows explorer... > > Doing an ls -l on the directory only takes 2 minutes. > > Does anybody know how to tune samba to share large directories? > > I already increased shared mem size to 20MB and was surprised that > smbstatus still reportet 1MB (yes, I restartet smbd...) > > Can anybody help me? > > Manfred >
Manfred Birkhoff manfred.birkhoff at veritas.com> Hi! > > I would like to use samba to share a directory with about 1.5 Mio Files. > The environment is HP/UX 11.11 on a HP9000 (4 procs, 4GB RAM), vxfs 3.5, > EMC Symmetrix and samba 2.09. > > When I share the directory via samba and access it from a Win2k machine, > the Windows explorer hangs and smbd spawns about 15 processes that use > quite much cpu time. After 30 minutes I killed the processes and the > Windows explorer... > > Doing an ls -l on the directory only takes 2 minutes. > > Does anybody know how to tune samba to share large directories? > > I already increased shared mem size to 20MB and was surprised that > smbstatus still reportet 1MB (yes, I restartet smbd...) > > Can anybody help me? > > Manfred >What I do with my directory (16,000 files and SMB list times of 3-5 minutes), is run (from UNIX) smbclient //server/share and then do an ls. This primes some sort of cache, and then a directory listing from windows takes very little time. I have a cron job set to run the smbclient command every night. I wish there was a way to tell smbd to cache the directory listings manually. I have a AMD K6.2 450 with 180 GBs on a reiserfs filesystem, with 16,000 mp3 files. Of course, I have samba 2.2.8a, which may be different from 2.09. Dunno. Windows takes long to read, for it wants all the information available (file size, etc.) Hope this helps. Tom
Is the imprints project, http://imprints.sourceforge.net/ still active. The mailing list shows no activity since July 2002 and I have not been able to make the install_printer_drivers.pl script work with samba 2.2.8a. The samba.org imprints server appears to be down and the sourceforge one has only a few old HP printer drivers on it. So, it the Imprints project really dead?