Performance problems in Red Hat AS4 probably related to CIFS

[teddy mills]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/slow-samba-possible-fix-617270/

I don think it is applicable in your case, but a FYI.





Mike Sillers wrote:
> I'm fairly new at this and am evaluating AS4 as a potential OS to run 
> a Progress database on. It requires that I mount a few Windows shares 
> and shortly after I mount them, the system "pauses" for up to several 
> minutes. I've searched the web for information but this distro seems 
> to be different from others in CIFS and SMB setup. There is no entry 
> for CIFS in the /proc/fs directory nor is there a config file for SMB 
> in the /etc directory.
>  
> I've found something about others having this problem and seen this 
> suggestion:
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE 
> SO_RCVBUF=4096 SO_SNDBUF=4096 in smb.conf.
>  
> Currently I'm running samba3-cifsmount-3.0.26a-35.i386.rpm which I 
> downloaded from ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/rhel/4/i386 
> <ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/rhel/4/i386> which seems to have 
> improved the situation a bit over the client included with the distro.
>  
> Here are some of the types of error messages I'm getting:
> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 7
> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 11
> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 13
>  
> The system mount most affected is NT4 - the 2000 and 2003 seem better 
> - but I am able to access this mount from HP-UX 11i although it does 
> cause occasional timeouts (but nothing like on Linux).
>  
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions I might try?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Mike

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