file sharing painfully slow

[Karl Kuehn]

On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:49 AM, János wrote:

>> Has anyone replicated Chris's results, btw?  (5 Minutes of  
>> beachballing unresponsive Finder for a folder containing 900  
>> images)?  I know I couldn't with my mid-level broadband  
>> connection, which is what leads me to believe the issue is his  
>> connection and not the Finder at all.
>
> I have a folder on a server with 25,983 tif image files in them -  
> with average size 200KB - and via AFP in ListView it opened up in  
> about 30 seconds.
>
> I have 100Mbit/s connection to the Server and that is about 4 hops  
> away from me.
>
> My guess is also that it is not the Finder, but rather the network  
> that is not able to handle the burst of traffic.


	I said this a long time ago... but it very much looks like things  
are going serially (one at at time). Network latency is the thing  
that causes the problem more than anything else.

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		Karl Kuehn
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