Guest Mycroft Holmes Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Hi, Here's my problem: we have a server with tons of drives and partitions C..H. each partition is about 500MB operating system is Windows 2003 x64 SP1. Most clients are non-windows laptops connecting via SAMBA. We never had issues, but recently we enabled shadow copies on partitions F and G; we noticed that when clients perform a large file transfer (say, a 700 mb file), the transfer rate is as fast as usual, but the progress bar on the client pauses near the end, it stays there for a long time (e.g. 1 minute) and eventually it finishes ok, the file has been written correctly. In the "idle" time the server has moderate cpu activity (say 10%) and some I/O. Can anyone point me in the right direction in fixing the problem? thanks, MH
Guest Mycroft Holmes Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 Re: Slow network file copy in VSS enabled volume "Mycroft Holmes" <m.holmes@nospam.it> wrote in message news:O04OXWGIIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > Here's my problem: we have a server with tons of drives and partitions > C..H. each partition is about 500MB > operating system is Windows 2003 x64 SP1. > Most clients are non-windows laptops connecting via SAMBA. > We never had issues, but recently we enabled shadow copies on partitions F > and G; we noticed that when clients perform a large file transfer (say, a > 700 mb file), the transfer rate is as fast as usual, but the progress bar > on the client pauses near the end, it stays there for a long time (e.g. 1 > minute) and eventually it finishes ok, the file has been written > correctly. > In the "idle" time the server has moderate cpu activity (say 10%) and some > I/O. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction in fixing the problem? > thanks, > MH > note that the same problem is mentioned here http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=66468 (just search "5 seconds remaining" in the page) also, it seems that the issue does not occur if shadow copies are turned off. any comment?
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