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2003 Mar 06
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Samba and Seq. Read ahead.
...in the sense that there was an onslaught of calls to the disks
at one time.
System is 6H1 with 6-RS64-III at 668MHz with 6GB memory. Disks are SSA
36.4 10k in 2 6+P/HS raid-5.
Now it seems that single tuning has allowed Samba to work even better than
it has!
Also the addition of O_DIRECT and/or O_NOCACHE to the fd_open() call in
source/smbd/open.c had no significant increase in performance.
I thought someone might get to use this as well and share success with the
Samba Team not related to a *bug*!
Thanks for listening.
PS: There are further tunings I'm looking into wrt to not allowing Gb
et...