Hallo Pascal Hahn, > I got big performance roblems in here with our big file server. We got a 2.4 > ghz Intel xeon in there, 1 gb ram and 2 scsi hds in softraid 1 on an adaptec > Adaptec ASC-29320 U320. The array is set up with standard ext3 system. > > We are running samba on it with our business softwares data on it. Its a > program which uses lots of small and some bigger text files to store info in. > When we work on the server with 4 persons we got about 1200 files locked abd > being read. it isnt that much of data(per client about 50 mb transferred) but > the speed is veery slow. I get about 10 mb/s from the raid in all which is > nothing. I also got the samba process eating all 100 % of my cpu. > > I tried to move the files outside the raid but that didnt have any effect on > the performance. > > Does anyone have an idea how i can speed up the performance? Is it possible > that the locking slows down the performance so much?
Have you the Chance to change the Filesystem (to reiser or xfs) ? These FS _should_ be better on a lot of Files in a Directory and Handling of that. Or play with the Options -R stripe=stripe_size and -J device=other_journal_device of mkfs.ext3. Hope it helps Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba