On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 03:34, Nathan R. Valentine wrote:
> > I will test the results from both Windows and Mac OS X clients with the
> > data hosted on a Windows server to measure the results. From experience,
> > I expect that the Mac OS X clients will still perform worse but not to
> > the same de
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:22, ww m-pubsyssamba wrote:
> I would strongly suspect that the Mac OS finder is simply hammering the
> file server because, in your case, it as to do 1 seperate read opertions
> just to display the folder contents. Try with an NFS share, this would
> identify whether t
I would strongly suspect that the Mac OS finder is simply hammering the
file server because, in your case, it as to do 1 seperate read opertions
just to display the folder contents. Try with an NFS share, this would
identify whether the SMB support in either the client or server is
ineffecient
> I will test the results from both Windows and Mac OS X clients with the
> data hosted on a Windows server to measure the results. From experience,
> I expect that the Mac OS X clients will still perform worse but not to
> the same degree as when the data was hosted on Samba.
Turns out that we
> In principal it does not surprise me that it is much slower on your OS X
> client than on your Linux or Windows clients. When you open a folder in
> your Linux or Windows file browser all they will need to do is request a
> file listing. On the other hand an OS X client will read the resourse f
Hi Nathan,
all I can say is we are also testing Mac OS X with Samba (on Solaris)
and with slightly more typical numbers of files per directory are not seeing
any simliar issues.
In principal it does not surprise me that it is much slower on your OS X
client than on your Linux or Windows cl