I Do think the local hard disk speed is cause *some* limitation, but since I can upload & download the same and other files and directories to the server at 4x the speed, I do not think that is the main limitation.
I am still perplexed by this issue, why is it that any sort of normal upload/download data transfer from server to client or vice-versa via network shares works at speeds of roughly 400,000 kb/s when a profile being copied back and forth at login/logout runs at a much slower 50,000 kb/s? Iv'e just been frustrated by this issue and I would really like to get to the bottom of this, thank you all for your patience and continued support. Jonathan On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Andrew Masterson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might be due to the way you are testing - local hard drives usually > can't make use of gigabit networks for downloading because their write > speeds are too slow. > > -Andrew > > > ------------------------------------- > > On Behalf Of Jonathan Bougher > > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:08 PM > > To: Adam Williams > > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > > Subject: Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only > runs > > atfast ethernet speeds! Help! > > > > Ok that idea sounds golden, I will try it out the first chance I get. > This > > is a big improvement over the way it is now, it's a little harder on > > users, > > but not much. I thank you very much! > > > > However, just because I am a curious kind of guy, I do not yet know > > *why*such a slowdown occurs when saving a profile vs. just > > uploading/downloading > > to a share. Is this a result of the old profile having to be > overwritten? > > I > > know I need to read up on this a little more but has anyone had direct > > experience with this type of issue, or any ways to speed up that > service > > in > > particular (or what could be slowing it down). > > > > Thank you all so much, you have already helped tremendously - please > help > > me > > out just a little more to understand this better. :) Thanks! > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Adam Williams > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > page 211 of samba 3 by example.pdf has instructions on how to > redirect > > > folders using registry changes. you can easily redirect my > documents by > > > right clicking on it and changing the target. i don't save files to > my > > > desktop because that just results in a cluttered desktop and large > > roaming > > > profiles. No I don't think VMWare will run much slower than it is > now. > > In > > > testing on my Poweredge servers, desktop PCs, etc, it seems in my > > experience > > > that hard drives max out at reads/writes of 25 megabytes a second, > and > > even > > > 100megabit transfers about 12 megabytes a second on a switched > network. > > I'd > > > probably try a test, take a user, redirect my documents to a folder > on > > the > > > server, put the VM in it, and run it, and see how it affects your > > > performance, you may not notice anything different. I ran Windows > XP > > and > > > Fedora 8 on Microsoft Virtual PC in a test environment on my 100 > megabit > > > notebook PC with the VMs stored on a shared drive on a file server > and I > > > didn't notice much of a difference as running an operating system > > locally. > > > > > > > > > Jonathan Bougher wrote: > > > > > >> The VM is being saved to the Desktop, within a folder (or multiple > > folders > > >> if the user puts it there) > > >> > > >> If I redirect My Docs, and the VM files are there - Then won't > VMware > > run > > >> much more slowly trying to access this stuff across the network > when > > the > > >> user wants to run the VM? Profile loading/saving would speed up, > but > > overall > > >> performance would be impacted negatively I think > > >> > > >> Thanks for the reply, I will look into it further - do you have any > > >> thoughts about what I stated above? > > >> > > >> > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba