file sharing painfully slow

[Nigel Kersten]

On 21/03/2007, at 7:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:

> That's a complete b.s. suggestion. It could only be "well known"  
> because the Finder handling a simple task in a very stupid manner.  
> There is no HFS+ limitation to the number of files or folders  
> within a folder (root level yes), and 900 items doesn't even  
> remotely approach the level of what's unreasonable EXCEPT in this  
> context because the Finder is clearly so poorly behaved. I do not  
> have these kinds of performance problems in the same situation  
> using Windows and that's just embarrassing.
>
> The amount of file metadata is nothing in comparison to sending a  
> 128x128 pixel icon redundantly for every cotton picking image.

It's not just the Finder. The OS X Server AFP server is a bit dumb  
about this as well.

Have a look at Extreme-Z-IP and the recent MacEnteprise.org webcast  
on it. GroupLogic have done some work to reduce the absurd amount of  
statting that goes on.


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Nigel Kersten
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