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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
To: "\"J.A. Magallón\"" <jamagallon@ono.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:44:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC55894.5040509@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101024013038.057442c0@werewolf.home>

On 10/24/2010 05:00 AM, J.A. Magallón wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:46:36 +0200, "J.A. Magall�n" <jamagallon@ono.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> If you mean hardware network path (cabling, router), yes.
>> For file paths, CIFS fs is under /net/htpc/media, and gvfs uses a mount
>> point on '~/.gvfs/media on htpc'.
>>
>> And here comes the weird part. To rule out the desktop environment factor,
>> I tried a dd in both paths. On /net, I get 16.6 MB/s, and on
>> ~/.gvfs/xxx, I just get 5.5 MB/s. I really don't understand anything...
>> things get reversed depending if you use a gui or commandline.
>>
>> Weird, really weird...
>>
> 
> Well, to sort things out, I did some more tests (this does not mean things
> get any closer to be clear for me at least...).
> 
> Can anybody tell me whats going here...??
> It looks just like gui tools behave just in reverse of cli, and that a plain
> smbclient is faster that cifs. I'm really confused...
> 

Could you try mounting from commandline with something like
  `mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/point -o user=user1`
(commenting out the fstab entry) and try copying the file?


-- 
Suresh Jayaraman

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 23:35 CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast J.A. Magallón
2010-10-22 10:44 ` Suresh Jayaraman
2010-10-22 16:06   ` Steve French
2010-10-22 22:46   ` J.A. Magallón
2010-10-23 23:30     ` J.A. Magallón
2010-10-25 10:14       ` Suresh Jayaraman [this message]
2010-10-29 22:33         ` J.A. Magallón
2010-10-30  0:54           ` Steve French

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