On 9/29/06, Jeremy Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:45:08AM -0400, Steven Cardinal wrote:
> In trying to track down some performance issues, I'm finding with
Ethereal
> that, when I launch an application from my Windows server, the SMB Read
AndX
> Request packets have Min Count, Max Count Low, and Remaining all at 512
> bytes. When launching the same application on the same client from a
Win2000
> share, these requests are coming in much larger sizes (4096 and 32768
were
> both observed). This is making a huge difference in the launch speed of
the
> application (an in-house VB app).
>
> My question is, what smb.conf or kernel parameters could be influencing
the
> 512 byte read request? I tried setting various socket options in
> smb.confand haven't seen a change. I am running Suse
> 10.0 with their 3.0.20b samba packages (except we recompiled to include
> idmap_rid).

Looks like Windows has decided you're on a WAN link, not a
LAN link. I'd check MSDN on the web for registry settings
affecting this. (Can't remember them offhand).

Jeremy.


Problem solved. It was, in fact, the kernel oplocks. I didn't realize that
Samba needed to be fully restarted (and not just HUPped) for this param to
take effect. Disabling kernel oplocks on my test box and restarting removed
the issue. I will implement the change this weekend on my production box.

Thanks for your attention. And especially thanks to the guy who posted about
ARCView a few weeks back!
Steve
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