smbfs small read tuning?

[Kirk Strauser]

I have an application that makes hundreds of thousands of small read()s (a 
few hundred bytes each time).  If I run it directly on files on an smbfs 
mount, the runtime is on the order of an hour.  If I copy the files to my 
local hard drive first and then run it, the total copy + run time is on the 
order of four minutes.

The mount_smbfs(8) man page doesn't mention anything about tuning and I'm 
not sure where else to look.  Is there a way to enable some kind of 
read-ahead cache or otherwise trade some memory or CPU for a speed boost?
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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