Hi, I'm having strange performance problems with samba and an application written with VisualFox Pro. This application is entirely installed in a Windows share and it has a hystory of strange phenomenons.
Initially it ran fast on an old NT server (but that server has been replaced). It has strange performance problems with Windows 2000 Server: it runs fast with some servers and slow with other seemengly identical ones. The slow Windows servers show no noticeable load (low CPU usage, low disk usage, low network bandwidth, but very high number of packets). I tried to share this same application with Samba hoping to gain some performance, but it runs even slower (twice the loading time the the slowest Windows available) and it hogs all the CPU. This last detail particularly surprised me. I attach the samba logs for just 0.5 seconds of high load (log level 5). I tried all I could to optimize samba for this kind of load, but nothing yelded better results than just the default and I don't know what else to try. Has anyone had similar problems with applications that try to access massive amounts of files (and with massive amounts of errors)? -- Bye, Massimiliano Hofer
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