| I have always experienced VERY SLOW response times | on opening an EXCEL sheet ever since I had started | to use SAMBA WAY back. I have been hoping that a | newer release would fix this one issue but it never | seems to happen. Does anyone know what could be the | problem? I can open the same Excel sheet on a | Novell server and it opens instantly. I have no | problems with WORD documents. They open just fine. | It just seems to be the Office 2000 pro Excel | sheets. This slowness occurs on the 2x all the way | up to the 3.0 beta 2. I have also tried turning off | oplocks but that has no effect. It takes 15 seconds | to open an Excel sheet on SAMBA and only a half of a | second on Novell.
On my system Excel (OfficeXP) opens a small spreadsheet (100 KB) just as fast when it is on the local disk as when it is on the samba share. In 15 seconds it can open a 41.4 MB big spreadsheet. Paradoxically, it only takes 8 seconds to store it back to samba share after a change. The same file on a local disk takes a little less than 2 seconds to open but 5 seconds to write back after a change. The copy time in both directions is about 5 seconds. It may explain the longer write-back time. However the longer opening time consists of a foreplay, when a void Excel window first appears until it starts reading the file sequentially - about 8 seconds, and the loading time - about 7 seconds. The foreplay is a very amusing ritual if you look at it with filemon or ethereal. But if your PC takes 15 seconds for a considerably smaller spreadsheet, there's something wrong with your system setup, not necessarily samba. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
