Samba - slow browsing/folder opening

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi John,
NOPE, that's definitely bad performance; WAY out of the ordinary.  Try this
for comparison to see if it's samba, or the network;  from the same pc that
you are being told it'll take 1/2 hour to copy the gif files, try doing an
ftp from that pc to the server, and see how long it takes over ftp;  if ftp
is still way faster than samba from the same pc (therefore the same network
path), then we're talking about something in samba...
Hope this helps,
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: John P [mailto:john at pmbbs.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:48 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Samba - slow browsing/folder opening


Hi All,

> The only thing is, users have started to complain
> that opening folders from their Win9X machines is
> much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a
> noticable delay between clicking on a folder and
> it being loaded..

Had a chance to do a bit more checking on this.

When it comes to opening folders from a Windows box, the following is
noticed:
- Opening a folder with 3,300 small GIF files takes roughly 8 seconds
- Opening an empty folder takes roughly 4 seconds