> Please connect from XP as a client to your Vista box and compare the traffic > generated. If using Vista as the server, the requests are different. But the client will still send a lot of other requests.
> I very much doubt that has to do with those many requests. > It very likely is something different. But as you are not answering the > question what *exactly* is slow, nobody can tell. If using default file system, I think it is fast enough to make you ignore the time spent on these requests. But if using other VFS slower than the default file system, I have to find out what do these requests really for. Because they seem to be unnecessary and make my Samba service slow. > See my initial reply: This is very likely just normal Windows XP behaviour. > What is missing for you here? Thanks for your help. // Zeyi -----Original Message----- From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2009年4月27日 17:56 To: Xia, Arandar Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:48:17PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote: > > Windows Vista as client or Windows Vista as server for your XP client? > Windows Vista is also as a client. Linux is the server. Please connect from XP as a client to your Vista box and compare the traffic generated. > > What *exactly* is slow? > Sorry. > Samba service is slow. Sometimes I need to wait a while > for a simple action to be done on the client side. I very much doubt that has to do with those many requests. It very likely is something different. But as you are not answering the question what *exactly* is slow, nobody can tell. > What I really care is whether such behavior of Windows XP > is normal and how to solve the problem if it is abnormal. See my initial reply: This is very likely just normal Windows XP behaviour. What is missing for you here? Volker
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