Thanks.. we will look at deploying 1.5.8 then... See-ya Mitch
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:26 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > I actually know exactly what the problem is. The 1.4.x file servers > implement a change to prevent unfriendly clients from repeatedly > requesting FetchStatus operations on the same object. The 1.4.x > and earlier Windows clients do not implement the InlineBulkStatus > operation. This was first implemented in 1.5.3. Without > InlineBulkStatus, when Windows attempts to perform a status operation > on each of the files and directories within a directory that has 'l' > but not 'r', the FetchStatus operation will fail. Therefore there is > no data to cache and the client must repeatedly query the server. > This triggers a backoff algorithm to slow down the client. In turn > the SMB client is breaking off the connection and .... > > In other words, it is a change in the 1.4.x servers that is hurting > you. The 1.5.8 Windows client will save you. > > Jeffrey Altman _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
