Slow write performance with Win 98 and Samba (fwd)
Jeremy Allison
jeremy at valinux.com
Wed Jun 20 20:32:13 GMT 2001
"Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
>
> Scott Prather wrote:
> > > There are two reasons
> > > this is slow. The small packet size is all that Windows 98 can send before
> > > having to wait for a reply. The flush command causes the remote file
> > > system to write the bytes to disk before the flush reply can be sent back.
>
> We work around the latter with "strict sync" and "sync always", but it's
> just a work-around.
Just to clarify what Chris is saying here, by default we *don't* force
a disk write before the reply is sent. This isn't the source
of the slowness.
Jeremy.
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