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Zentyal Server => Installation and Upgrades => Topic started by: fmartin on October 02, 2013, 05:16:03 pm

Title: "Saving Samba module" is too slow with a huge number of files
Post by: fmartin on October 02, 2013, 05:16:03 pm
I have a share with a few GB and about 1.5 million of files. When I do a change (like gateway configuration) in Zentyal and I do "Save Changes" I need wait about two hours while the operation "Saving samba module". With less files I need to wait less time.

Any solution?

Thank you.
Title: Re: "Saving Samba module" is too slow with a huge number of files
Post by: zworK on October 03, 2013, 10:44:47 am
I noticed the same behavior, but I just have to wait 15 minutes ;)

Looking at the logs, it seems that samba is accessing all shared files, maybe an ACL check? I see lots and lots of "smbd_audit" line from 127.0.0.1.

During a configuration change, samba module restart or reboot, these 2 samba processes hogs the cpu:
/opt/samba4/sbin/smbd -D --option=server role check:inhibit=yes --foreground
/opt/samba4/sbin/smbd -D

Also iotop only shows "disk write"  and no "disk read" from:
/opt/samba4/sbin/smbd -D --option=server role check:inhibit=yes --foreground

I tried to find documentation about the "server role check:inhibit=yes" parameter, but searching the man pages and google gives no usefull result ...

I did not dig any deeper, maybe a strace of the samba process will show what is happening. Or someone with more samba4 knowledge will let us know :)
Title: Re: "Saving Samba module" is too slow with a huge number of files
Post by: swsch on October 21, 2013, 02:18:07 pm
I snooped around a bit and found that after changing some settings in /etc/zentyal/samba.conf the startup "problem" disappeared.

Be aware that I have no idea if running with unmanaged_acls = yes is good for your system, it might result in some weird errors that are nigh impossible to track down.
Title: Re: "Saving Samba module" is too slow with a huge number of files
Post by: pcready.cl on October 21, 2013, 08:10:55 pm
any solution for this??

i have same problem
Title: Re: "Saving Samba module" is too slow with a huge number of files
Post by: pcready.cl on October 24, 2013, 10:28:32 pm
Quote from: swsch on October 21, 2013, 02:18:07 pm
I snooped around a bit and found that after changing some settings in /etc/zentyal/samba.conf the startup "problem" disappeared.
  • line 128: unmanaged_acls = yes
  • line 134: disable_fullaudit = yes

Be aware that I have no idea if running with unmanaged_acls = yes is good for your system, it might result in some weird errors that are nigh impossible to track down.

i tried this option


but samba dont work... the permissions in files s0x, and the "__USERS__" is deleted. DONT ACTIVE THIS OPTION.