[SLUG] Samba slow at opening root folder of share

[Edwin Humphries <edwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have several samba shares on our CentOS server. One, which has around 
 44Gb of data, is very fast to open; another, which has around 8Gb 
(albeit a slightly more complicated directory structure) is very slow to 
open. Sadly, it's the latter which is accessed more often.

If a Windows app is pointing directly to a file on the slow share, it 
opens quite quickly; however, if you have to open the root directory, it 
takes around 10 seconds to read it. The puzzling thing is that both are 
sub-directories of the same Linux directory, both owned by root with 
0777 permissions, and both have identical smb.conf entries (aside from 
share names and paths, obviously).

Can someone give a hint as to what's happening and how to fix it?

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Regards,
Edwin Humphries
Mobile: 0419 233 051
Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
ACN: 094 533 641
ABN: 88 094 533 641
P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533
Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285
Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299
Web: http://www.ironstone.com.au

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