Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 1999 19:10:19 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: smbfs caching |
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On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 05:44:48AM +0000, Tom Eastep wrote:
> However, if you are using a Microsoft client to copy something > large over a slow WAN via SMB, you can kiss off using your machine > for anything else until the copy completes (I've observed this > using Win95, Win NT and Win98). If you are using a Samba client, > you can at least continue to use your machine of other work...
Copying from NT server is really fun too -- it tried to bring the entire file into memory. For, pulling a 400MB (database dump) file off a NT box via SMB sucks rocks -- the machine starts swapping (only have 256MB of RAM) and thrashes really badly, eventually the file will copy, but it takes a _long_ time.
There are fixes for this -- but its silly I have to code a custom Win32 app. to get around this. Grrr... bad M$.
-cw
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