"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:55:56 -0600, "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@SeeScreen.com>
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"Hector Santos" <sant9442@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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Peter Olcott wrote:
I am doing block I/O, and it is very fast on the local
drive and much slower on the 1.0 gb LAN, yet file copies
to and from the LAN are still fast.
(1) File copy to and from the LAN is faster than local
drive copies, 20 seconds for LAN, 25 seconds for local.
(2) Block I/O is fast on the local drive, 12 seconds for
632 MB.
(3) Block I/O is slow on the LAN, 80 seconds for 632 MB.
I also tried changing the block size from 4K to 1500
bytes and 9000 bytes (consistent with Ethernet frame
size), this did not help.
By File Copy, you mean DOS copy command or the CopyFile()
API?
I am using the DOS command prompt's copy command. This is
fast.
To me, the above appears to be consistent with a caching
issue that your code is not enabling when the file is
first open. The "File Copy" is doing it, but you are not.
Probably showing how you are opening the file will help,
i.e. the CreateFile() function or fopen().
Another thing is maybe to check google
Search: SAMBA Slow File Copy
The problem is the contradiction formed by the fact that
reading and writng the file is fast, while reading and not
wrting this same file is slow.
I am currently using fopen() and fread(); I am using
Windows XP.
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Use of fopen/fread would certainly indicate that you are not doing this
in anything like
an optimal fashion.
If you want to read a file that is under 100MB, it is usually best just
to allocate a
buffer the size of the file,
respectively does not measurably increase speed. Also in my case I must
CreateFile, do a single ReadFile, do your computation, do a
WriteFile, and you are done. You are comparing two completely unrelated
concepts:
fopen/fread and a copy command; what you didn't ask was "what is the
fastest way to read a
file"; instead, you observe that two completely different technologies
have different
performance. You did not actually state this in your original question;
you just used a
generic concept of "copy". Details matter!
Note that fread, called thousands of times, is amazingly slow in
comparison to a single
ReadFile.
By failing to supply all the critical information, you essentially asked
"Why is it that I
can get from city A to city B in 20 minutes, but my friend takes two
hours?" and neglected
to mention you took the high-speed train while your friend went by
bicycle.
joe
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There are some interesting hits, in particular if you are
using Vista, this MS Samba hotfix for Vista,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770
There was another 2007 thread that the original poster
said turning off indexing improved the speed.
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