[Samba] Performance Issues with AutoCad 2003

2004-06-04 Thread Brian Merrell
Hello, we are using a Samba server (3.0.2a) here at work. It's running on a dual 1.4ghz opteron with two 250gig HD. Everything seems to be running fine except for AutoCad (which is the main program we run). Any time we try to save it can take up to 10 seconds, or each time we try to print it

[Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-07 Thread Brian Merrell
users = drafter [Topowork] path = /fileservice/topowork writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No guest ok = No comment = adobe related files valid users = drafter Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brian Merrell -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-07 Thread Brian Merrell
the Strict sync option. I would also test it with the oplock options disabled as well. On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:59:34 -0600, Brian Merrell wrote: This is from 1998: We've had serious performance problems loading AutoCAD R14 .dwg files from a VAResearch VArServer 3000 (dual 400MHz PII, Red Hat 5.0

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-07 Thread Brian Merrell
, Brian Merrell wrote: This is from 1998: We've had serious performance problems loading AutoCAD R14 .dwg files from a VAResearch VArServer 3000 (dual 400MHz PII, Red Hat 5.0, SAMBA 1.9.17p4, 256MB RAM, 36GB RAID5). The problem is that on first access, trying to read the .dwg file is very, very

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Merrell
: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad? On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:59:34AM -0600, Brian Merrell wrote: Here are some smb.conf's I have tried: (I have

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Merrell
hosted on an older windows XP machine with a heavier load. I'm all out of ideas and really don't want to go back to windows. brian. - Original Message - From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Merrell
I am not using Samba's print service. All of the individual workstations have shared printers. We simply use those. - Original Message - From: Paul Gienger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:59 AM Subject: Re

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Merrell
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Turner Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:45 AM To: 'Brian Merrell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad? Brian I might suggest a couple of setting changes on your XP machines: 1

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-09 Thread Brian Merrell
timing the time it takes to save. It takes the older machine about 1.25 seconds to save a 606KB drawing and it takes ~3 seconds for the new fancy machine. Could this be due to ReiserFS? - Original Message - From: Rashkae [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-09 Thread Brian Merrell
guess as to what the problem is. - Original Message - From: Brian Merrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad? Yes I am user reiserFS on the AutoCad Shares (Jerry, are you?) The older machine

Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad?

2004-06-11 Thread Brian Merrell
We use AutoCAD 2000, 2002, 2004 with RH E3.0 and Samba 3.0.2-6.3E with no delays in saving or printing and have achieved better performance than the previous W2k server. With a little more information we might be able to assist in finding the bottleneck. Terry AutoCad 2002 seems to work