smb672.txtsmb680.txt Attaching the testparm outputs. I also tried some debugging after rolling back again to the previous version. I see two differences in behavior   - Each os.listdir call is ~3-4x slower on average on v6.8 vs v6.72 (2.5s vs 0.7s for a 6k file directory) - When calling os.stat on a single NONEXISTENT file in a 250k file directory on 6.8 (should be microseconds per call), every 100 or so calls, it hangs for ~5s   Concurrent calls are simply additive