Re: [Netatalk-admins] Netatalk Search Problem

[Didier <dga...@ma...>]

Hi,
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:28:56 +0200, Shmulik Miller wrote=20
> lately we have installed a brand new and powerful HP server, loaded wit=
h RAM
and hardware configured its scsi disks as Raid level 5.=20
> Unfortunately, altough procedures as coping and saving files to the ser=
ver
are performed fast enough, Searching for files on the server takes a long=
 time.=20
> Not only searching takes a long time, some time the result is nothing a=
nd
most of the time the server seems to hang for the other clients.=20
> We have approximately 500 GB of data on the server combined of 'Freehan=
d'
and "Photoshop" files.=20
> Accessing this server are 10 OS 9 and 5 OS X clients.=20
> 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.=20
> From a research that we have done and by talkimg to Bj=F6rn it seems to=
 be a
netatalk problem.=20
> We understand that the solution will probably require some code to be w=
ritten.=20
> The question is, is there a way to bypass this problem until then?=20
>=20
The only option would be to comment out FPCatSearch capability and recomp=
ile
netatalk.=20

Do you have more data on what is wrong?

Didier