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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-01-15 22:29:27 +0000
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REL="HOME"
TITLE="SAMBA Project Documentation"
HREF="samba-howto-collection.html"><LINK
+REL="UP"
+TITLE="Optional configuration"
+HREF="optional.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
-TITLE="Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide"
-HREF="browsing-quick.html"><LINK
+TITLE="Group mapping HOWTO"
+HREF="groupmapping.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
-TITLE="HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS"
-HREF="cvs-access.html"></HEAD
+TITLE="Appendixes"
+HREF="appendixes.html"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="CHAPTER"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ WIDTH="10%"
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+HREF="groupmapping.html"
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>Prev</A
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@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ WIDTH="10%"
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@@ -71,15 +74,15 @@ CLASS="CHAPTER"
><A
NAME="SPEED"
></A
->Chapter 17. Samba performance issues</H1
+>Chapter 23. Samba performance issues</H1
><DIV
CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2742"
+NAME="AEN3065"
></A
->17.1. Comparisons</H1
+>23.1. Comparisons</H1
><P
>The Samba server uses TCP to talk to the client. Thus if you are
trying to see if it performs well you should really compare it to
@@ -108,17 +111,17 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2748"
+NAME="AEN3071"
></A
->17.2. Oplocks</H1
+>23.2. Oplocks</H1
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN2750"
+NAME="AEN3073"
></A
->17.2.1. Overview</H2
+>23.2.1. Overview</H2
><P
>Oplocks are the way that SMB clients get permission from a server to
locally cache file operations. If a server grants an oplock
@@ -152,9 +155,9 @@ CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN2758"
+NAME="AEN3081"
></A
->17.2.2. Level2 Oplocks</H2
+>23.2.2. Level2 Oplocks</H2
><P
>With Samba 2.0.5 a new capability - level2 (read only) oplocks is
supported (although the option is off by default - see the smb.conf
@@ -176,9 +179,9 @@ CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
-NAME="AEN2764"
+NAME="AEN3087"
></A
->17.2.3. Old 'fake oplocks' option - deprecated</H2
+>23.2.3. Old 'fake oplocks' option - deprecated</H2
><P
>Samba can also fake oplocks, by granting a oplock whenever a client
asks for one. This is controlled using the smb.conf option "fake
@@ -197,9 +200,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2768"
+NAME="AEN3091"
></A
->17.3. Socket options</H1
+>23.3. Socket options</H1
><P
>There are a number of socket options that can greatly affect the
performance of a TCP based server like Samba.</P
@@ -225,9 +228,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2775"
+NAME="AEN3098"
></A
->17.4. Read size</H1
+>23.4. Read size</H1
><P
>The option "read size" affects the overlap of disk reads/writes with
network reads/writes. If the amount of data being transferred in
@@ -251,9 +254,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2780"
+NAME="AEN3103"
></A
->17.5. Max xmit</H1
+>23.5. Max xmit</H1
><P
>At startup the client and server negotiate a "maximum transmit" size,
which limits the size of nearly all SMB commands. You can set the
@@ -274,9 +277,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2785"
+NAME="AEN3108"
></A
->17.6. Locking</H1
+>23.6. Locking</H1
><P
>By default Samba does not implement strict locking on each read/write
call (although it did in previous versions). If you enable strict
@@ -291,9 +294,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2789"
+NAME="AEN3112"
></A
->17.7. Share modes</H1
+>23.7. Share modes</H1
><P
>Some people find that opening files is very slow. This is often
because of the "share modes" code needed to fully implement the dos
@@ -321,9 +324,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2794"
+NAME="AEN3117"
></A
->17.8. Log level</H1
+>23.8. Log level</H1
><P
>If you set the log level (also known as "debug level") higher than 2
then you may suffer a large drop in performance. This is because the
@@ -335,9 +338,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2797"
+NAME="AEN3120"
></A
->17.9. Wide lines</H1
+>23.9. Wide lines</H1
><P
>The "wide links" option is now enabled by default, but if you disable
it (for better security) then you may suffer a performance hit in
@@ -349,9 +352,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2800"
+NAME="AEN3123"
></A
->17.10. Read raw</H1
+>23.10. Read raw</H1
><P
>The "read raw" operation is designed to be an optimised, low-latency
file read operation. A server may choose to not support it,
@@ -371,9 +374,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2805"
+NAME="AEN3128"
></A
->17.11. Write raw</H1
+>23.11. Write raw</H1
><P
>The "write raw" operation is designed to be an optimised, low-latency
file write operation. A server may choose to not support it,
@@ -388,9 +391,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2809"
+NAME="AEN3132"
></A
->17.12. Read prediction</H1
+>23.12. Read prediction</H1
><P
>Samba can do read prediction on some of the SMB commands. Read
prediction means that Samba reads some extra data on the last file it
@@ -414,9 +417,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2816"
+NAME="AEN3139"
></A
->17.13. Memory mapping</H1
+>23.13. Memory mapping</H1
><P
>Samba supports reading files via memory mapping them. One some
machines this can give a large boost to performance, on others it
@@ -435,9 +438,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2821"
+NAME="AEN3144"
></A
->17.14. Slow Clients</H1
+>23.14. Slow Clients</H1
><P
>One person has reported that setting the protocol to COREPLUS rather
than LANMAN2 gave a dramatic speed improvement (from 10k/s to 150k/s).</P
@@ -452,9 +455,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2825"
+NAME="AEN3148"
></A
->17.15. Slow Logins</H1
+>23.15. Slow Logins</H1
><P
>Slow logins are almost always due to the password checking time. Using
the lowest practical "password level" will improve things a lot. You
@@ -465,9 +468,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2828"
+NAME="AEN3151"
></A
->17.16. Client tuning</H1
+>23.16. Client tuning</H1
><P
>Often a speed problem can be traced to the client. The client (for
example Windows for Workgroups) can often be tuned for better TCP
@@ -569,9 +572,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
-NAME="AEN2860"
+NAME="AEN3183"
></A
->17.17. My Results</H1
+>23.17. My Results</H1
><P
>Some people want to see real numbers in a document like this, so here
they are. I have a 486sx33 client running WfWg 3.11 with the 3.11b
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ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
-HREF="browsing-quick.html"
+HREF="groupmapping.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
@@ -628,7 +631,7 @@ WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
-HREF="cvs-access.html"
+HREF="appendixes.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
@@ -638,17 +641,21 @@ ACCESSKEY="N"
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
->Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide</TD
+>Group mapping HOWTO</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
->&nbsp;</TD
+><A
+HREF="optional.html"
+ACCESSKEY="U"
+>Up</A
+></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
->HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS</TD
+>Appendixes</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV