At 15:04 09/01/2003, Chris Palmer wrote: >Anders Nordby writes: > >> I've got performance problems with copying small files over to a Samba >> share in a directory that has lots of small files (10000 to 20000 >> files). It takes too long time to copy new files (they drip in at a >> fast pace), and smbd eats a lot of CPU time. > >This could be not so much a Samba problem as a Unix kernel problem. >Traditional Unix filesystems (UFS, FFS, ext2, et c.) do not deal well >with very full directories. See Maurice Bach's book *Design of the Unix >Operating System* and M. K. McKusick's *Design and Implementation of the >4.4BSD Operating System*. These are both just great books. > >If you are on Linux, try using one of the new filesystems like ReiserFS, >XFS or JFS. Among other abilities, they can handle extremely full >directories better.
What about EXT3 file system? Thank you Roberto >-- >Chris Palmer Systems Programmer GeneEd > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
