This past weekend I set up a MacBook Pro to time machine via CIFS to my 
OpenSolaris server.

It took over 7 hours to do the initial population using Samba as the CIFS 
server.  During that time, I noticed that the server was showing a relatively 
high load... About 45% cpu (basically, it used 1 of my 2 cpus) and a ton of 
filesystem activity.  A quick Dtrace showed me that it was almost all Samba, 
which was doing about 2000 llseeks per second.

I shut down Samba and fired up the kernel cifs stuff.  I ran the initial 
population again.  This time it took ~2 hours and the CPU was well under 1% the 
whole time.  Looks like it's network bandwidth limited now.

Thanks for the hard work and the impressive results.

Gary
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