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

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Well... there you go.  ;)

On 03/15/2013 02:18 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
> 

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