Samba and filesystem question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 22:13 +0800, Yu Meng Chong wrote:
> Hi all, 

> I'm not sure if anyone else on this list has similar personal
> experiences ...? I'd like to hear any theories about why this happens
> and how to solve it without falling back on Windows crap.

Our company-wide file servers recently moved from Novell to Windows
2008. When that happened, I noted a big change in speed of CIFS access
from openSUSE 11.2. For example, if a directory has many files (perhaps
> 100), it can take a few seconds before the directory listing happens.
File access is equally slower. For us the change was to the server - the
client remained the same. I am accessing things on openSUSE 11.2, where
I always see the slowness. A colleague using 11.3 does not see this
delay. Not exactly conclusive info. But that is what I see here.

What OS are you accessing the CIFS volumes from?


Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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