Samba Perfomance issues are seen when "async smb echo handler" is enabled

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Issue

When the following option is enabled in samba we see a dramatic loss in throughput performance.

async smb echo handler = yes

Output which shows throughput performances in different scenario's.

Option disabled (async smb echo handler = no)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test_pup_1g bs=1G count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.07757 s, 349 MB/s

Option enabled (async smb echo handler = yes)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=test_pup_1g bs=1G count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 188.025 s, 5.7 MB/s

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
  • samba-3.6.23-35.el6_8.x86_64

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