file sharing painfully slow

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 12:21 AM, John C. Welch wrote:

> but have you actually run some of the various utilities on the  
> server, like
> maybe fs_usage when this is happening to see if the problem is  
> really on the
> server or not?

I haven't tried that no, but I don't follow.

As I said in a previous post, if I use column view and turn off "show  
icons", the full listing of 900 files shows up instantly (ok maybe 2  
seconds of delay). If I turn just that one feature on, the Finder and  
do anything else, the Finder beachballs for about 5 minutes as it  
downloads 900 redundant icons. There are two problems here. The  
Finder becoming unusable is a separate problem than all the extra  
icon information it's requesting that it doesn't need to. That's  
clearly a local problem.

And if I do the same thing on the server's Finder while  using ARD,  
my client window shows these files in list view as fast as the screen  
is updated. So the problem isn't occurring with the server's systems  
using the server's Finder and ARD to display the result remotely.  
That tells me it isn't a server problem (per se).

It also doesn't occur when the client Finder accesses the server  
remotely in column view with show icons turned off. It only occurs  
when show icons is turned on, in any view (list, icon or column).  
That strongly implies to me that there is a Finder and maybe also AFP  
issue with respect to the display of file icons over an internet  
connection.


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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