Comment 3 for bug 84782

This person said they solved the problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2808665&postcount=23
Of course using cifs instead of deprecated smbfs I hope, too.
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 Re: Samba 100x slower than FTP?
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Originally Posted by inque_54 View Post
Hello,

I've been researching on this problem too.

Was anybody able to resolve this issue?
Actually, yes (at least for me).

My speed problems were caused by the gam_server checking my samba share for updates too often.

I added this line to /etc/gamin/gaminrc:
Code:

fsset cifs poll 60

and I haven't had a problem since.

BTW, I had to do this on ALL machines that mount this share.

Hope this helps.
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