[jcifs] jCifs vs samba on AIX

[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:55:43 +0200
"Tobias Ödell" <tobias.odell at jayway.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are using samba to transfer files between AIX and windows but want to use jCifs to easy up the maintainance of the product by using the same implementation on both windows and AIX environments.
> 
> On windows jCifs is really fast but when jCifs is used on AIX a transfer can take up to 17 seconds for jCifs but takes average half a second using samba.
> 
> Does anyone know how to speed up jCifs to get the same performance as samba when transferring files from an AIX environment to a windows environment.

Get a packet capture and look at the frame times to find out where the delay is.

Mike