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Re: 1.5.19 slow access to shares


On Tue, 9 May 2006, Michael Hirsch wrote:

I have a network share (//xcocluster1/vpg) mounted to g:.  Depending
on which name I try to access it with I get radically different access
times:

mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
$ time ls //xcocluster1/vpg
Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/

real    0m10.875s
user    0m0.030s
sys     0m0.062s

mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
$ time ls g:
Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/

real    0m0.063s
user     0m0.030s
sys     0m0.015s

mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
$ time ls //xcocluster1/vpg
Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/

real    0m17.094s
user    0m0.046s
sys      0m0.046s

I couldn't find and explanation for this.  Is this normal?  Is there a
way to make them both fast?

Running a similar command in the windows CMD window yields fast
accesses, regarless of whether I refer to drive letter or machine WINS
name.

When you use the WINS name, Cygwin does some processing of the network share path itself, whereas with the g: drive it delegates to Windows. I don't know if it's always possible to delegate to Windows when the WINS name is specified. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!

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