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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd dir-cache #'s with Samba and moving files... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006071317140.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <200006071954.MAA01198@mass.cdrom.com>

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It was mounted soft-updates:

/dev/vinum/vinum0 on /d/vol0 (ufs, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 69895
async 508210, reads: sync 297497 async 389496)



On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

> 
> Mount the filesystem(s) async, or use softupdates.
> 
> > 
> > I wish I would've grabbed a screen shot while it was happening, but I
> > didn't.
> > 
> > In any case, a fairly recent 4.0-stable (last couple weeks), and samba
> > 2.0.7.
> > 
> > The FreeBSD box is doing nothing, except smb, and running systat -vmstat 1
> > in a telnet session.
> > 
> > 
> > >From my NT box, I was moving a bunch of files from dir1 to dir2.
> > 
> > While it was doing the move (several thousand files), the name-cache #'s
> > stayed around 98-99%, and 10k hits.  But the dir-cache stayed around 10%
> > with 300 or so hits.
> > 
> > dir1 and dir2 are on the same disk, so essentially just simple
> > moves.  Directory structure was only about 3-4 levels deep.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what knobs and frobs can be tweaked and frobbed to help this
> > out?  Or if it's even really a problem?  The moves seemed really slow,
> > maybe 2-3 files moved/second.  Of course, I'm sure something in smbd is
> > also an issue, but it just seems like that cache should've stayed way the
> > heck up there...
> > 
> > 
> > 
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