If you are trying to figure out why your MacOS Finder is slow when it connects to a Samba file share on a Linux server, you are in the right place.<\/p>\n
I found the solution in this post:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/medium.com\/@augusteo\/fixing-slow-macos-finder-connection-to-linux-samba-server-ed7e5ea784c1<\/a><\/p>\n Here is what you need to add to \/etc\/samba\/smb.conf on the Samba server:<\/p>\n While I was searching for things that could speed up a MacOS Finder client’s session, I found a number of optimizations that helped speed Windows clients connected to a Samba file share.<\/p>\n The best of these was a post:<\/p>\n https:\/\/eggplant.pro\/blog\/faster-samba-smb-cifs-share-performance\/<\/a><\/p>\n with these suggestions for \/etc\/samba\/smb.conf on the Samba server:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are trying to figure out why your MacOS Finder is slow when it connects to a Samba file share on a Linux server, you are in the right place. I found the solution in this post: https:\/\/medium.com\/@augusteo\/fixing-slow-macos-finder-connection-to-linux-samba-server-ed7e5ea784c1 Here is what you need to add to \/etc\/samba\/smb.conf on the Samba server: vfs objects = … <\/p>\nvfs objects = fruit\nfruit:aapl = yes\nfruit:encoding = native\nfruit:locking = none\nfruit:metadata = stream\nfruit:resource = file<\/pre>\n
[<\/span>global<\/span>]<\/span>\n\n# FORCE THE DISK SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE REAL STORAGE BLOCKS WHEN<\/span>\n# A FILE IS CREATED OR EXTENDED TO BE A GIVEN SIZE.<\/span>\n# THIS IS ONLY A GOOD OPTION FOR FILE SYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT<\/span>\n# UNWRITTEN EXTENTS LIKE XFS, EXT4, BTRFS, OCS2.<\/span>\n# IF YOU USE A FILE SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT UNWRITTEN<\/span>\n# EXTENTS, SET \"strict allocate = no\".<\/span>\n# NOTE: MAY WASTE DRIVE SPACE EVEN ON SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS<\/span>\n# SEE: https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=798532<\/a><\/span>\n\n strict allocate<\/span> =<\/span> Yes<\/span>\n\n# THIS IS TO COUNTERACT SPACE WASTAGE THAT CAN BE <\/span>\n# CAUSED BY THE PREVIOUS OPTION <\/span>\n# SEE: https:\/\/lists.samba.org\/archive\/samba-technical\/2014-July\/101304.html<\/a><\/span>\n\n allocation roundup size<\/span> =<\/span> 4096<\/span>\n\n# ALLOW READS OF 65535 BYTES IN ONE PACKET.<\/span>\n# THIS TYPICALLY PROVIDES A MAJOR PERFORMANCE BENEFIT.<\/span>\n\n read raw<\/span> =<\/span> Yes<\/span>\n\n# SERVER SIGNING SLOWS THINGS DOWN WHEN ENABLED.<\/span>\n# THIS WAS DISABLED BY DEFAULT PRIOR TO SAMBA 4.<\/span>\n# Thanks to Joe in the comments section!<\/span>\n\n server signing<\/span> =<\/span> No<\/span>\n\n# SUPPORT RAW WRITE SMBs WHEN TRANSFERRING DATA FROM CLIENTS.<\/span>\n\n write raw<\/span> =<\/span> Yes<\/span>\n\n# WHEN \"strict locking = no\", THE SERVER PERFORMS FILE LOCK<\/span>\n# CHECKS ONLY WHEN THE CLIENT EXPLICITLY ASKS FOR THEM.<\/span>\n# WELL-BEHAVED CLIENTS ALWAYS ASK FOR LOCK CHECKS WHEN IT IS<\/span>\n# IMPORTANT, SO IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF CASES,<\/span>\n# \"strict locking = auto\" OR \"strict locking = no\" IS ACCEPTABLE.<\/span>\n\n strict locking<\/span> =<\/span> No<\/span>\n\n# TCP_NODELAY:<\/span>\n# SEND AS MANY PACKETS AS NECESSARY TO KEEP DELAY LOW<\/span>\n# IPTOS_LOWDELAY:<\/span>\n# [Linux IPv4 Tweak] MINIMIZE DELAYS FOR INTERACTIVE TRAFFIC<\/span>\n# SO_RCVBUF:<\/span>\n# ENLARGE SYSTEM SOCKET RECEIVE BUFFER<\/span>\n# SO_SNDBUF:<\/span>\n# ENLARGE SYSTEM SOCKET SEND BUFFER<\/span>\n\n socket options<\/span> =<\/span> TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF<\/span>=<\/span>131072<\/span> SO_SNDBUF<\/span>=<\/span>131072<\/span>\n\n# SMBWriteX CALLS GREATER THAN \"min receivefile size\" WILL BE<\/span>\n# PASSED DIRECTLY TO KERNEL recvfile\/splice SYSTEM CALL.<\/span>\n# TO ENABLE POSIX LARGE WRITE SUPPORT (SMB\/CIFS WRITES UP TO 16MB),<\/span>\n# THIS OPTION MUST BE NONZERO.<\/span>\n# THIS OPTION WILL HAVE NO EFFECT IF SET ON A SMB SIGNED CONNECTION.<\/span>\n# MAX VALUE = 128k<\/span>\n\n min receivefile size<\/span> =<\/span> 16384<\/span>\n\n# USE THE MORE EFFICIENT sendfile() SYSTEM CALL FOR EXCLUSIVELY<\/span>\n# OPLOCKED FILES.<\/span>\n# NOTE: ONLY FOR CLIENTS HIGHER THAN WINDOWS 98\/Me<\/span>\n\n use sendfile<\/span> =<\/span> Yes<\/span>\n\n# READ FROM FILE ASYNCHRONOUSLY WHEN SIZE OF REQUEST IS BIGGER<\/span>\n# THAN THIS VALUE.<\/span>\n# NOTE: SAMBA MUST BE BUILT WITH ASYNCHRONOUS I\/O SUPPORT<\/span>\n\n aio read size<\/span> =<\/span> 16384<\/span>\n\n# WRITE TO FILE ASYNCHRONOUSLY WHEN SIZE OF REQUEST IS BIGGER<\/span>\n# THAN THIS VALUE<\/span>\n# NOTE: SAMBA MUST BE BUILT WITH ASYNCHRONOUS I\/O SUPPORT<\/span>\n\n aio write size<\/span> =<\/span> 16384<\/span><\/pre>\n