Very bad performance when copying large files from windows to samba-share

[Ulf Bertilsson]

> Maybe someone could take a look at this ?
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:13:34 +0200
> Lars Heineken <Lars.Heineken at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Let me summarize what we have:
> > 
> > -Win98 doing a write request to the last byte of the file 
> to be copied
> > -My machine creates a tempfile of that size and if that 
> takes too long  we get a timeout
> > 
> > -> My questions: What is samba doing if strict allocate is 
> set to "no", is it ignoring the write request ?
> >                  Does it pass the write request on to the 
> system, and the kernel creates the tempfile ?
> > 		 What can I do to check who's fault the 
> creation of the tempfile is ?

Do samba always create this temp file and what is it contence ?