Has anyone seen this weird behavior from Mac OS X's SMB client?

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 13:18:04 MDT 2013


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Christopher R. Hertel
<crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:
> On the Windows platform, such odd behavior patterns are often tracked back
> to the application itself.  Could that be the case here?  Which application
> causes this behavior?

Heh, the application is PowerPoint for the Mac from the Office Suite
for the Mac.

> Chris -)-----
>
> On 03/15/2013 02:07 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I just looked at a capture that has the following:
>>
>> Five seconds worth of TRANS2 SET_FILE_INFO extending the file by 512
>> bytes each time
>> A short burst of writes that looks like it covers all the extensions
>> of the file.
>>
>> This makes the overall throughput very low. Does anyone know of a way
>> to improve this behavior?
>>
>
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Richard Sharpe
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