Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2005 18:57:49 -0600, you wrote:I found this helps in some circumstances, some office versions, MS article 818792:
On Monday 16 May 2005 18:45, Michael W Cocke wrote:
There is a chapter on the subject of large directories in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection (The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide).I have a server running SuSE 9.3 (Samba 3.0.13-1.1). The underlying filesystem is xfs, and the NICs are Netgear gigabit. 2 Gb of ram in a P4/3.0 Ghz. The workstations are windows XP Pro, with all service packs installed, on P4 3+ Ghz, 1-2 Gb of ram. (varies a bit by workstation)
I have one particular tree on the server that contains over 12K files in a few hundred subdirs. Breaking it up isn't an option.
I'm aware that there are tons of parameters and options in the smb.conf file, many having to do with performance, but I could use a pointer.
When the users try to open a file, the select file listbox in ANY
windows app is taking an eternity to populate. The transfer speed of
the files is fine, but is there a paticular way to speed up the
findfirst/findnext loop that populates the list?
A copy has been reserved for you at:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
If you find any problems please let me know as soon as possible.
Thanks.
- John T.
Thanks! The case sensitivity might be a problem, but maybe I can work
something out... Right now the filenames are mixed case and some of
the software that maintains the contents will have to be rewritten.
The biggest issue will be the users, as usual. The filenames show up in a number of the places we use the data, and I don't think I'm going to impress anyone with all upper (or lower) case names, but it may be the only way we can make this work right, in which case they'll learn to love it.
Is there any other option?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818792
Basically, it quits waiting for the entire list of files because it quits trying to highlite the first openable file in the sort sequence.
Might be of some use. Works for me.
Regards, Doug
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