On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:56:21 +0100 Mike Tonks <fluffymike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for the response - you gave me an excuse to download the new > ubuntu 10.10 beta and fire it up. > > So I now have a VirtualBox vm on the same network running > 2.6.36-19-generic. Is that recent enough to have the fix you > mentioned? > Yes, it went in a few releases ago. > The result is odd / interesting. The first time I run the 'ls -la' it > is quick (4 seconds) as per the older machine, but on subsequent calls > it slow again (4 minutes) like the production box. > > If I umount then mount again, I get one fast lookup, then slow again > for any further calls. Totally repeatable, I've been repeating on and > off all day and scratching my head in bewilderment. > > I checked the 2.6.31 machine and the umount trick does not work there. > > Any ideas? > Nothing I can think of right offhand. You'll probably have to do some debugging to track down the cause. Maybe look at captures in wireshark and see if you can discern the difference in behavior between the two runs. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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