On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:12:19AM +1300, steve wrote: > Has anyone any tips on improving samba performance with debian lenny? > > I've set up a raid 0 partition on a couple of new WD 1TB disks, > formatting the majority of it as a single reiserfs partition. I must > admit I should probably have set the blocksize to something other than > the default at the time, but now it's well populated, changing stuff > like that is going to be a big problem. > > Performance is pretty poor to put it politely - primary use is a single > samba share with a very large directory structure, millions of files. > Can anyone suggest any improvements that can stop it being that slow? I > regularly see 50+% in waitio.
Do you have individual directories with huge numbers of files? This is a known performance problem with a workaround: case sensitive = yes preserve case = no short preserve case = no Volker
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