Samba Performance problem

[Joseph Koshy]

mc> Also make sure that you don't use a giant-locked driver
mc> somewhere in the chain to the filessystem and that WITNESS
mc> and friends are off.  Is this a SMP machine?

As a general suggestion, you can use hwpmc(4) and pmcstat(8)
to understand where the bottlenecks are.  For example, you
can capture a system-wide profile and convert it to a set
of gmon.out files, one per executable object (kernel,
shared libraries, executables) in the system.

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