[jcifs] rcv_buf_size & snd_buf_size

[Michael B Allen]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Stian Brattland <stian at brattland.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using WireShark to monitor the smb traffic between my application (which
> use JCifs) and a Samba server running on linux. All settings are the default
> ones.
>
> When i copy files using windows drag and drop, WireShare reports the
> following: Read AndX Request, FID: 0x14fe, 61440 bytes at offset (...).
> However, when
> i use the JCifs package, WireShare never reports package sizes above 16574.
> Regardless of wether i change the "jcifs.smb.client.snd_buf_size" or
> "jcifs.smb.client.rcv_buf_size", this package size never changes.
>
> I'm using System.setProperty() when i try to alter the buffer sizes. Have
> anyone else ever experienced this problem?

Hi Stian,

What does your JCIFS code look like? Maybe it's not using a larger buffer?

Note that a larger buffer does not equate to faster transfers. The
most important factor is getting as much data into each packet (e.g.
every other packet has 1 byte would be slow).

Mike

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