[Netatalk-admins] Netatalk performance

[Frank L. <fra...@go...>]

I've started a new thread in order not to spoil Simon's thread.

Thanks for the summary. I made some comments inline below:

> After one week we changed to the old server with Helios:
>
> a) Searching on the Netatalk-Volume -> very slowly, because there is no
> Index of the Files.

In fact netatalk has an index: the CNID database. Nevertheless I can
indeed reproduce that netatalk is way slower for searches compared to
Helios. Can you file a bug report on this please so I can remember to
come back to this and fix it ?! Thanks.

> That we know befor and we would use a SharewareProgramm
> for Searching - not a big problem
>
> b) the real problem was navigating through the FileSystem:
>
> -- ServerVolume
>        -- Pictures
>                -- Year
>                        -- Object (up to 100 Folders)
>                                -- 01
>                                -- 02
>                                ...
>                                -- 51
>                                -- 52
>
> That is the simple Stucture of our Folders - every opening of the Folder
> need much more time as under the old helios-server. The Folder-Icons and the
> FileIcons would build up every time new. Under Helios you doubleklick of a
> foldericon -> schwupp, it opens the now folderwindow with directly showing
> the icons inside.

Can't reproduce. Were these files and folders using custom icons ?
I've conducted another synthetic benchmark with a folder containing
5000 subfolders.

$ time find /Volumes/netatalk/dir -type d -exec GetFileInfo {} \; > /dev/null

real	2m32.260s
user	0m17.198s
sys	0m25.405s

$ time find /Volumes/HELIOS/dir -type d -exec GetFileInfo {} \; > /dev/null

real	3m8.828s
user	0m17.380s
sys	0m26.635s

$

> So - after a week working with netatalk, we switched back to the old server
> and i build up the new one with helios :(

If you ever reavaluate netatalk I can only encourage you to take your
problems and questions to this list or contact me off-list.

-Frank