Samba / Slow performance with small files

[LL0rd]

Hey Guys, 

 

currently I have a problem with my linux NAS Server. It's an linux machine running NIXOS Linux. On the server I have a ZFS pool/fs. The Server and my main machine are connected via 10GbE. When I work with Video-Footage, I have transfer speeds of about 800MByte/s from or to the server. But... on the same ZFS fs / same Samba Share I have also my documents. Part of them are in LaTeX. When I compile a TeX file into a PDF File, I also get 3-4 another Files, like a log file, and some other files. So in this directory I have about 800 Files with the size of a couple kb. Even opening the directory takes about 5-8 seconds via Samba. And compiling TeX files also takes a while. And when I tried to copy the files from the ZFS Pool to another one, I got speeds of some kb/s. Copying via shell was not a problem. 

 

Can someone help me out? How can I improve the performance on small files?

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, LL0rd said:

How can I improve the performance on small files?

Samba by its very nature simply is slow with small files. Switch to NFS or something else, if you want faster speed.

[leadeater]

If you need SMB and are dealing with small files you'll need to utilize SMB Direct but that requires hardware level NIC support on both the Client and Server.