[Samba] Samba extremely slow on XP

[trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it]

Hi,
there is a problem with some version of norton antivirus that do a dns lookup.
So if your net is outside the internet or your dns does't resolve norton
request the machine goes slow.

Regards
MIchael

Quoting Martin Zielinski <mz at seh.de>:

> 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.
>>>
> [...]
>>
>>
>>> 	Also came to my mind things like DNS and WINS, which
>>> should affect w2k and xp in different ways.
>>>
>>> 	Kind regards,
>>>
> [...]
> 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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