Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 7 16:11:00 GMT 2010
On Oct 7 10:12, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Derry Shribman wrote:
>
> > Here's a quick guess on what the problem may be:
> >
> > For network shares (SAMBA), opening any handle, even a non-GENERIC_READ
> > handle requires a round-trip to the SAMBA server over the network. This
> > could easily be 1ms for LAN (and much much more for WAN). And only after
> > you have the handle you can query it. So thats what the "open network
> > file information" structures and APIs are: for network shares that the
> > additional round-trip for CreateFile/CloseFile makes it slower.
>
> If you folks haven't already seen the information presented here it might
> be interesting. I know I found it useful for coding the applications we
> use to move massive amounts of data and numbers of files around.
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/1/f2146213-4ac0-4c50-b69a-12428ff0b077/Optimizing_Applications_for_Remote_File_Access_Over_WAN.pptx
Powerpoint? *shudder*
Any chance you could provide an executive summary?
Corinna
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