----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "William Jojo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Performance issue on AIX when deleting files in adirectory with a large number of files
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:54:17PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > Do you see the change notify replies happening followed by the > > change notify setups ? I bet I know what it is.... > > > > Because AIX doesn't have kernel change notify when the change > > notify setup comes (which happens after every delete) it causes a > > directory rescan at that point - after *each* delete ! > Yep...you're right no F_NOTIFY defined in fcntl.h (that I can find). > I think I can code around this. The key is to ensure that > setting "change notify timeout" to zero turns off change > notify except for renames and deletes. Also make it a per-share > parameter so it can be set to zero for "large" directories... > > Give me a day or so on this. > Now, IBM claims they can do directory change notification in AIX Fast Connect. I wonder... Cheers, Bill > Jeremy. > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
