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- From: julien@sdc.boeing.com (William Julien)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: problems with PC/TCP's NFS
- Message-ID: <6635@fury.BOEING.COM>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 04:48:43 GMT
- References: <1hZ2JL#MJzb8=bruno@broue.rot.qc.ca>
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA
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- In article <1hZ2JL#MJzb8=bruno@broue.rot.qc.ca> bruno@broue.rot.qc.ca (Bruno Majewski) writes:
- >
- >Hello,
- >
- >(a message concerning this problem was posted a few days ago,
- > but because of disk problems on our machine, it might not have
- > gone out... so here I go again)
- >
- >We are using FTP Software's PC/TCP package to network a few PCs onto
- >a UNIX server, but we have a small problem with it. While the performance
- >of the setup is good, mounting a... "network drive" on the PC is unacceptably
- >slow (I timed this at 35-40 seconds to perform an `idmnt').
- >
- >We thought it might be the server being too slow (386-33), but a Macintosh
- >using NFS/Share from Intercon can mount a "network volume" almost instantly.
- >So the problem seems to lie with the PC's setup, but we can't see what
- >parameter could affect performance in such a way.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
-
- I have noticed that if I mount a unix directory with a lot of files and/or
- files that require dos mapping, the idmnt takes quite a while. It takes
- even longer for windows file manager to look at the directory.
-
- I have no solutions, but perhaps this is part of the problem?
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