samba - Dec 2004 - write performance of Win xpp sp2

Gentlemen,

I have noticed (!) an unbelievable drop in performance with
Windows xp pro sp2 systems, compared to sp1.  The performance 
I have noticed is 122 seconds to write 65,000 indexed records
to a dBase type file under sp2 and the same job in sp1 is 
7 seconds!!  I can't believe that this is a 'normal' feature
of Windows sp2 software when working with Samba.  Is it possible that Microsoft
has made changes that make Samba under Linux totaly uncompetitive.

ps. the performance drop is still there using the 'copy' 
command from the command prompt.  The file in question is 8.1 Meg, large but not
unreasonable.  ANY help would be appreciated.


John@mbstemps.com

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:19:38AM -0500, John Ward
wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> I have noticed (!) an unbelievable drop in performance with
> Windows xp pro sp2 systems, compared to sp1.  The performance 
> I have noticed is 122 seconds to write 65,000 indexed records
> to a dBase type file under sp2 and the same job in sp1 is 
> 7 seconds!!  I can't believe that this is a 'normal' feature
> of Windows sp2 software when working with Samba.  Is it possible that
Microsoft has made changes that make Samba under Linux totaly uncompetitive.
> 
> ps. the performance drop is still there using the 'copy' 
> command from the command prompt.  The file in question is 8.1 Meg, large
but not unreasonable.  ANY help would be appreciated.
Can you get an ethereal trace of an XP-SP1 copy and the same
copy done to the same Samba server under XP-SP2. We can then
look at the difference. What Samba server version (and what
platform please).

Jeremy.