Hi All, I hope this is a suitable place to post this message. I read with interest a previous thread with a very similar issue: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2010-January/005504.html I have several ubuntu servers here and a remote windows share across a slow VPN. I'm trying to create a 'folder watcher' to scan periodically for new files, and this works pretty well using 'ls -la' and then processing the output in perl. In particular, a dev machine: Linux highway-dev 2.6.28-18-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:40:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux and a production machine: Linux highway-www 2.6.31-19-server #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 03:40:48 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Both dev and production are in the same rack in one location, while the windows server is at another site. I've tested against other win servers at other sites with similar results. The remote folder has 9000+ files in it. The large number of files is definately part of the issue, with smaller folders the timing is more acceptable. For a simple 'ls': dev: 5 seconds production: 6 seconds For 'ls -la': dev: 6 seconds production: 200 seconds Sadly - I need the file size and timestamp for my program to work. My question is - can anyone explain what's going on and (hopefully) help me speed up the response on the production server / identify the network issue / etc. Or is this something that's changed at a software level? I timed my tests like so: $ date; ls /mnt/sharename/ > temp.txt; date $ cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging --------------------------------------------------- ... 2) Name: x.x.x.x Domain: WORKGROUP Uses: 1 OS: Windows Server 2003 R2 3790 Service Pack 2 NOS: Windows Server 2003 R2 5.2 Capability: 0x1f3fd SMB session status: 1 TCP status: 1 Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req On Wire: 0 Shares: 1) \\x.x.x.x\Jobs Mounts: 1 Type: NTFS DevInfo: 0x20 Attributes: 0x700ff PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 0x1 type: DISK MIDs: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
