Samba Performance problem

[Divacky Roman]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:42:41PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:30:23 -0400
> Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nick Evans wrote:
> > > Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Quite possibly, just as MySQL has been written with Linux primarily in
> > >> mind. 
> > >
> > > It should be possible to profile smbd and see where the bottleneck is, no?
> > > Has anyone tried it?
> > >   
> > 
> > 
> > It should be, but i don't believe anyone has tried yet.
> > 
> 
> Does anyone know how to get gprof to set the gmon.out file with a pid number
> in the filename? It's kind of hard to get output of the pid that controls a
> file transfer without it. Everything I've found via Google is not working so
> far.

I'd start with plain ktrace and look in the trace to check for 'suspicious things'.
It might be something trivial like calling gettimeofday() way too often as it
was with mysql....