Re: [Netatalk-admins] Netatalk Search Problem

Hi,
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:28:56 +0200, Shmulik Miller wrote 
> lately we have installed a brand new and powerful HP server, loaded with RAM
and hardware configured its scsi disks as Raid level 5. 
> Unfortunately, altough procedures as coping and saving files to the server
are performed fast enough, Searching for files on the server takes a long time. 
> Not only searching takes a long time, some time the result is nothing and
most of the time the server seems to hang for the other clients. 
> We have approximately 500 GB of data on the server combined of 'Freehand'
and "Photoshop" files. 
> Accessing this server are 10 OS 9 and 5 OS X clients. 
> Needs to be mentioned is the fact that while the "netatalk" clients are
receiving the os x spinning wheel and os 9 just hang, SMB clients at the very
same time seems to work just fine. 
> From a research that we have done and by talkimg to Björn it seems to be a
netatalk problem. 
> We understand that the solution will probably require some code to be written. 
> The question is, is there a way to bypass this problem until then? 
> 
The only option would be to comment out FPCatSearch capability and recompile
netatalk. 

Do you have more data on what is wrong?

Didier

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