smb browse to a 2k domain share sloooow

[Senectus .]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:26:49 +0100, Markus Kolb <ubuntu-ml at tower-net.de> wrote:
> What takes so long? Browsing the share or listing the shares?
> Nautilus needs some time to find the network services available in the
> network. It's like you'll do a Computer search on MS Windows.
> You can save the shares as a bookmark in Nautilus so that you need not
> to search the shares every time.
> 
> How do you browse the share? Nautilus? Try it in a console to see if it
> is the backends fault or the user interface.
> Can you try something like that in your top mounted share dir:
> 
> $ time { ls -Rla | wc -l ; }
> 3446
> 
> real    0m2.565s
> user    0m0.052s
> sys     0m0.042s
> 
> $ time { ls -Rla | wc -l ; }
> 19227
> 
> real    0m13.136s
> user    0m0.168s
> sys     0m0.211s
> 
> The number below the command line shows the line count of ls command. So
> you may say it is the number of files and directories.
> 
> You see that here everything is ok. I think 2 and a half second for a
> listing of 3400 files in different directories with a 10MBit LAN is fair.
> I think MS windows is not faster.
> 
> Markus

Ok I get :
146816

real    3m50.909s
user    0m2.650s
sys     0m4.364s

I'll re-do the test later because as I said its worse when I go to it
for the first time.. I have been in that dir a lot today.. so its
mostly quick.

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