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* information about someone doing this sort of workload over CIFS with Windows clients!
Thanks for the advice! Peter Godman On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Steven French wrote: > > > > > 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 smbfs > to your Samba server - this is probably a much more efficient way to > exercise readahead using SMB clients. The algorithm used by the Linux page > manager for readahead is pretty interesting. Note (if writebehind is also > being tested) that in the current 2.5 kernel implementation of the cifs vfs > at the moment there is a call missing to flush at oplock break time and > also at sync time (flush is called properly at file close time) but this > should be fixed soon. > > Steve French > Senior Software Engineer > Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin > phone: 512-838-2294 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
