[Samba] Samba extremely slow on XP

[Martin Zielinski]

malcolm wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 15:16, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
> 
>>malcolm escreveu:
>>
>>>I have a linux machine (1.4GHz) which shares filesystems
>>>to two Windows machines, (a) Windows 2000 (300MHz) and
>>>(b) Windows XP (2.4GHz).
>>>
>>>The XP machine, which should be faster, is about 10 times
>>>slower than the 2000 machine.
>>
>>	Hmmm... I know that the processor speed is really
>>different (eight times faster), but there are other things
>>that you should consider on this, NIC, RAM memory, network
>>infra structure and specially configuration. =)
> 
> 
> Yes but it's the machine which has a processor eight times faster that is six 
> times slower, i.e. 48 times slower than expected.
> 
> 
> 
>>>Anybody any ideas.
>>
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> 
> 
>>	Also came to my mind things like DNS and WINS, which
>>should affect w2k and xp in different ways.
>>
>>	Kind regards,
>>
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What about Anti-Virus Software?
 From some I know, that they examine every file mounted on a network 
drive. This can slow down the performance significantly.
If there's a difference between your systems, you might verify this by 
tracing the network traffic and looking, if the opened files are scanned 
backwards and forwards.

Bye,

Martin

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