linux-kernel - Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast

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Message-ID: <4CC55894.5040509@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:44:44 +0530
From:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
To:	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast

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@....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
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