Re: [Samba] SMBD CPU climbs sky high when writing DPX files

2009-11-05 Thread Andy Liebman
Hi Volker, The problem is the following: When creating a file we have to prove that the file does not exist in a different upper/lower case combination. Under Unix, the only way to prove this is to list the whole directory and do a case insensitive comparison on each existing file. Thank

Re: [Samba] SMBD CPU climbs sky high when writing DPX files

2009-11-05 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:43:59PM -0500, Andy Liebman wrote: The problem is the following: When creating a file we have to prove that the file does not exist in a different upper/lower case combination. Under Unix, the only way to prove this is to list the whole directory and do a case

[Samba] SMBD CPU climbs sky high when writing DPX files

2009-11-04 Thread Andy Liebman
Hello, I am experiencing a strange problem when writing (capturing) DPX video files to a Linux/Samba share. Basically, I'm seeing seeing a single smbd process go from 9 percent CPU utilization to 100 percent CPU utilization over the course of about 40 minutes. When smbd reaches 100 percent,