On 04/16/10 15:00, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or > 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from source. > > The symptoms are: read access is extremely slow, write access seems to work > in principle (e.g. creating a zeros-sized file on a share), but writing even > small files (100k) to the share eventually times out with "out of memory or > disk space" errors. These shares are home directories NFS-mounted on the > samba server. Shares of local disks work fine as expected. > > We have played with oplock settings and got some improvements, but not > reliably, and this seems to effect XP and Seven clients differently. > > Surely we are not the first to run into this sort of issue? Given the range > of tested software, the problem appears to be specific to CentOS5. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its > subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received > in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this > message. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > Try mounting your NFS volumes with: rsize=32768,wsize=32768 Are the NFS servers on the same network speed as the samba servers? Glenn