Oommen Thomas wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We have tested SAMBA against Netware and found the performance better in
> all parameters including File Creation/Open/Close, although the creation
> speed was almost the same (any reason?).
>
> But the other day we did some stress test on an application with SAMBA
> (under Linux) as the fileserver. This will create a large number of files
> (about 10000), all of these files going to reside in the same directory.
I think 10000 Files in one directory are the overkill. It's an issue of the
underlying fs.
Use an OS with vxfs (commercial). It's lightning fast. More sophisticated.
try splitting the file creation in 100 dir's with 100 files in each dir and
benchmark again.
Let me know what results you get.
--Andy
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