Samba performance compared to Windows 98

[Kim Payne]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Payne [mailto:kpayne at cirvisinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:26 PM
To: Steve McClary
Subject: RE: Samba performance compared to Windows 98




> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at us5.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at us5.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Steve McClary
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:22 PM
> To: samba at us5.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Samba performance compared to Windows 98
>
>
>
> I've had exactly the same problem - opening a 6 MB Access file from the
> Samba server is an order of magnitude slower than opening the same file
> from a Windows 95 (!) shared server. File copies are much faster from the
> Samba server, as expected. Is there something about opening an
> Access file
> that makes it so much slower than a simple file copy?

I know Access keeps track of who has the file open by writing to a .ldb
file.  It creates the  file when the database is first opened by someone and
deletes it when the last user closes it.  Knowing Microsoft, they probably
use special open and close routines to handle the database.  It's hard to
say exactly what happens without tracing the traffic when you open the
database.