From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:14:46 +0530 Message-ID: <4CC16B1E.4060709@suse.de> References: <20101022013544.0fdab0e0@werewolf.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-cifs To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall=F3n=22?= Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101022013544.0fdab0e0-BIo4oXGMtDgJmsy6czSMtA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: (Cc linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org) On 10/22/2010 05:05 AM, J.A. Magall=F3n wrote: > I have a very strange behaviour with windows networking. > I have an HTPC, which I access from my Linux desktop. It runs Windows= 7. > Network is GigaBit, routed by a Linksys WRT320N running latest DD-WRT= =2E > I setup an automount path under /net/htpc with CIFS filesystem. > I can also access the drives in HTPC via gvfs from Gnome DE. >=20 > Problem: speed is _VERY_ different. > R/W through the automount point (CIFS fs), is roughly 7-8 MB/s (ridic= ulous > for gigabit speeds). > R/W through Gnome/gvfs (kind of fuse) goes around 35 - 40 MB/s (400 M= bits/s), > that look much better. What is the kernel version In which you are seeing the problem? I'm not seeing this on 2.6.36-rc4. Do you have a wired interface as well? Are you sure that both are using the same network path? > I have tried with different rsize/wsize in mount, but speed is the sa= me > (perhaps I did not get the right values...). Does the changes reflect in /proc/mounts? --=20 Suresh Jayaraman