file sharing painfully slow

[Chris Murphy]

900 items in a folder, all JPEGs, no custom icons on an G5 XServe,  
2GB RAM, 4TB XRAID dual fiber channel on dedicated T1. Client is  
accessing the folder via AFP over a 1.5Mbps DSL connection. Routinely  
this takes 4.5 minutes, (during which time the finder is  
beachballing, of course), for the client Finder to not only be  
available but display the contents of the folder.

ftp of a 70MB file confirms bandwidth is fine.

So what's the explanation for this lunacy, and more importantly,  
what's the workaround? This is a crazy amount of time to have to wait  
for remotely accessing a folder over a reasonable connection. It's  
actually faster to use ARD and an ftp program to manage these files,  
but that's cumbersome for other reasons. It's almost like the Finder  
is asking for the icon status for every single JPEG, but I'm not sure  
what the deal is.

Suggestions?


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Ed"