[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba Server comments = performance hit

[Kenneth Loafman]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> ...
>> If the frequency of checking was high, then this may be a very small 
>> hit, but I can't believe that it would amount to more than a few seconds 
>> a week at the most.  I've had Samba servers up for days that just did 
>> not use up that much time overall, even under heavy use.
>>
>> This may have been a factor when CPU's were measured in MHz, but 
>> anything newer should not be affected at all.
> 
> According to John Terpstra... it's a huge hit.  Just fyi.  I think
> he knows what he's talking about.
> 
> There's a reason why some distributions moved away from a highly
> commented smb.conf file.

If that's the case then they need to rethink their config strategy.  If 
they are doing more than checking for a changed timestamp, then they are 
doing serious overkill.  Even cron, which checks multiple files and dirs 
once a minute does not have a high overhead.

...Ken