Slow file share with XP and 2000 clients

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We have 9 servers with approx. 4000 XP clients connecting to them. Once the
file size hits around 20,000 files browsing to the share folder then takes
about 30 seconds to a minute. I've scoured MS's site and found kB829700 and
another poster on this board that has seen the same thing with no responses.
I've also seen that other people that have posted in other online forums are
having the same issue. Unfortunately no one has yet to state a fix. One
person's theory is that the client computer is searching all folders before
it shows the base directory. I would tend to agree with this since it really
does seem that the more files and directories that exist, the longer it takes
to bring up. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on this issue?
It's becoming a pretty big problem here...
 
We have 9 servers with approx. 4000 XP clients connecting to
them. Once the
file size hits around 20,000 files browsing to the share
folder then takes
about 30 seconds to a minute. I've scoured MS's site and
found kB829700 and
another poster on this board that has seen the same thing with
no responses.
I've also seen that other people that have posted in other
online forums are
having the same issue. Unfortunately no one has yet to state
a fix. One
person's theory is that the client computer is searching all
folders before
it shows the base directory. I would tend to agree with this
since it really
does seem that the more files and directories that exist, the
longer it takes
to bring up. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on
this issue?
It's becoming a pretty big problem here...
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Hi
what I am suggesting is not the solution for the issue but it might
help increase the performance to a certain extent.
Try doing defrag on the shared drive and MFT. This document might be
useful , check it out

http://microurl.com/wugnet/SelfTuningDiskDrives
 
Hmm. I did try to defrag the drive it was on already. It seems to be based
off the number of directories. At one point I did read a post somewhere on
the internet (sorry I can't seem to find it again) that stated that they had
this problem and MS said that one of the patches made XP scan through all
directories looking for a specific file. At that point there was no fix
available.
 
Hi!

I think, I have imilar problem.
Instead of upgrading Windows 2000, I bought new computer and put on
Windows 2003.

I copied all the files and the server is very fast, except opening 2
directoryes.
In one I have about 48000 txt files, and in other I have 8000
sub-directory, with many in.

On the old maschine, I opened directory with txt files in 10 seconds,
and the other in 2 seconds.
Now it takes around 2 minutes / 25 seconds, when all the files are on
new server.

The strange thing is, that the directory are only opening slow from Win
XP (no mater which SP) and from another Win 2003. From Win2000 and from
Linux samba, it opens shate in a moment.

I can't find the solution for my problem.

If anyone can help!

I have Win 2003 with SP1 and all upgrades, HDD's are working fine, and
I have workgroup, not domain.

Computer is Celeron 2800, 512Mb, 2x 400G in software RAID1
 
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