Win2K/XP, oplocks, and readahead

2003-02-21 Thread Steven French
The readahead that the Linux page manager does (see mm/readahead.c) seems more sensible than what you are seeing with the Windows client - if you are trying to excercise your server in this way you might try the clients using the current version of Linux 2.5 kernel mounted with the cifs vfs or

Re: Win2K/XP, oplocks, and readahead

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Godman
Hi there! Although I am most focused on Windows clients since that is what our customers use, this would be a great thing to try to attempt to exonerate samba (not that much suspicion lies there anyway :)). It would be an interesting data point. I can't believe that I can't find *any*

Win2K/XP, oplocks, and readahead.

2003-02-20 Thread Peter Godman
Hi! I'm forwarding this message, which I orignally posted to the samba list, in the hopes of reaching a wider audience for my question. Thanks for considering my problem. I'm working with Samba backed by a high performance filesystem. From a Windows 2K and Windows XP client I'm trying to