RE: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Xia, Arandar
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] Sent: 2009年4月27日 17:56 To: Xia, Arandar Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:48:17PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > &

Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:48:17PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > > Windows Vista as client or Windows Vista as server for your XP client? > Windows Vista is also as a client. Linux is the server. Please connect from XP as a client to your Vista box and compare the traffic generated. > > What *exac

RE: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Xia, Arandar
> Windows Vista as client or Windows Vista as server for your XP client? Windows Vista is also as a client. Linux is the server. > What *exactly* is slow? Sorry. Samba service is slow. Sometimes I need to wait a while for a simple action to be done on the client side. What I really care is whet

Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:12:51PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > > Sorry, but that's most likely just Windows behaviour. > Thanks for your reply. > Do you know why Windows sends so many same requests? What does it want to get > on earth? > I also tried on Windows Vista, the requests are much less.

RE: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Xia, Arandar
Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:48:43PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > This problem makes the access to my samba server be very slow. > Could anyone help me to find the reason and give a

Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:48:43PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > This problem makes the access to my samba server be very slow. > Could anyone help me to find the reason and give a solution? Sorry, but that's most likely just Windows behaviour. Are you sure that it is that that makes access slow?

[Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

2009-04-27 Thread Xia, Arandar
Dear all, My question is described as follows. Server: Linux Samba-3.3.1 Client: Windows XP with SP3 Step1: connect to the samba server. Step2: select a directory name “test”. (The directory is created before testing.) The client will send a lot of QUERY_FILE_INFO requests. According to d