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
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*
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