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Dear all, My storage could be very slow for open/read/write sometimes (not always). To avoid CIFS timeout (Linux), I configure samba server "async smb echo handler = yes". On server side, I can see two smbd processes are generated for every CIFS client, and one of them is for echo server. On client side, I confirm CIFS 1.0 is used (and "hard" option is also used). But I can

Hello Zhiye, On my opinion, you can improve the CIFS performance instead of avoiding CIFS timeout. Such as extend read/write size and change the cache type. I don't think enable "async smb echo handler" is a good choice for your situation. This option will depress performance. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zhiye via samba Wang" <samba at