[Bulk] Re: [cw-discuss] samba shares > cxoffice-linux

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 09:59:04 am Joe Baker wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > This seems to work except for what appears to be an extreme performance
> > hit on teh database I am using (foxbase). It is much slower than the vm
> > session. I will have to get it setup on a desktop machine now instead of
> > just the laptop so I have a 100base T to see it it is the 802.11G
> > wireless or just the system in general. I know er only have one lan cable
> > running between 2 routers, and probably need to upgrade that but I was
> > hoping for a performance increase over the vmware session not the other
> > way around. The software itself seems to be faster in cxoffice, but the
> > network performance is a real hit. I will also have to try on teh win2003
> > server and see if it is any different over my freebsd samba server.
> > on teh freesmb box it may help to use nfs and mount that way over samba?
> >
> > Mike
>
> There is an option in filesharing called opportunistic locking.  I thing
> for a database file you need to turn opportunistic locking off.
> "OpLocks" they are called.   I remember this was an issue for database
> applications.  There is a way to set oplock settings for specific file
> extensions.
>
> -Joe Baker
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
on teh samba server did help some.

I may also need to upgrade my samba server, it is 3.0.14a, running on a 
freebsd-5 box. I have been going to build another hardware and box for this 
application, this might be a good time, and maybe use a kubuntu for the 
server this time? 

Mike
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