[H-GEN] Samba browsing slow

[David Duffy]

Josh Marshall wrote:

>> I've seen that in the past, and have found that it tends to be the 
>> client rather than the server - ie some clients had the fault and 
>> others not.
>> I just did a quick google (I never actually found the problem) and 
>> found this little gem which you could try:
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-February/060991.html
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James McPherson - PTS Engineer wrote:

> One thing I noticed a few months ago was that I had, umm, somewhat
> excessive logging turned on (historical troubleshooting artefact)
> with my samba server. The logfile had of course grown rather large
> and that combined with synchronous logfile writes sloooooooooowed
> everything down.


The logging in smb.conf is at a low level. (2 IIRC) Is that what you meant?
Checking with free and df indicates no problems with ram or disk space.
David...