[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba Server comments = performance hit

[Chris Cox]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
...
> 
> If the frequency of checking was high, then this may be a very small 
> hit, but I can't believe that it would amount to more than a few seconds 
> a week at the most.  I've had Samba servers up for days that just did 
> not use up that much time overall, even under heavy use.
> 
> This may have been a factor when CPU's were measured in MHz, but 
> anything newer should not be affected at all.

According to John Terpstra... it's a huge hit.  Just fyi.  I think
he knows what he's talking about.

There's a reason why some distributions moved away from a highly
commented smb.conf file.