From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754335Ab0JYKOw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:14:52 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41367 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751616Ab0JYKOv (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC55894.5040509@suse.de> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:44:44 +0530 From: Suresh Jayaraman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100714 SUSE/3.0.6 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?IkouQS4gTWFnYWxsw7NuIg==?= Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast References: <20101022013544.0fdab0e0@werewolf.home> <4CC16B1E.4060709@suse.de> <20101023004636.1acdd81c@werewolf.home> <20101024013038.057442c0@werewolf.home> In-Reply-To: <20101024013038.057442c0@werewolf.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/24/2010 05:00 AM, J.A. Magallón wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:46:36 +0200, "J.A. Magall�n" 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