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I'm curious why smbd is using so much CPU time.
When I copy a file from a Samba share to my Windows box, it typically uses about 15% of the ...
- 07-29-2005 #1Just Joined!
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smbd using lots of CPU
I'm curious why smbd is using so much CPU time.
When I copy a file from a Samba share to my Windows box, it typically uses about 15% of the CPU time (according to top). This is on a 2.66ghz celeron.
That seems like an excessive amount of CPU time to read from a disk and transmit across the network. I know Windows doesn't use nearly that much CPU time when files are copied from shares...
Just curious and hoping maybe there's a fix.
Pete
- 08-05-2005 #2Linux Newbie
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Look if DMA 5 is enabled for your harddrive. Samba uses loads of CPU time if DMA 2 is enabled.
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I have 3 hard drives. When I installed linux, I created a single logical parition that covered all 3 (with /boot in a separate partition)
2 of the drives are using udma6 and 1 uses udma 5.
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- 08-09-2005 #4Linux Newbie
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If you have raid configuration based on software raid than it will use more cpu time as Hardware raid.
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It's not RAID. I simply have the drives linked together as a single logical partition.
Pete
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