"Michal" <Mic***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AABDD510-30CC-47B4-8B7F-0FD169A8834B@microsoft.com...
>I have a new computer (let's call it SERVER) with WinXP Pro SP2 (Pentium D
> 3.2, 1GB of RAM, 100Mbit/s ethernet) which shares a folder in my network.
> This folder contains approximately 5 000 - 10 000 files. Half of them are
> images (JPEG) and the other ones are short description files in binary
> format. These files occupy 2-3GB of storage space.
>
> The problem is when I open this shared folder from the SERVER on my
> computer
> it takes about 2-3 minutes to wait for displaying folder contents. My
> computer is also WinXP Pro SP2 (a little slower than the server).
>
> While shared folder contents are being read from the SERVER I observed:
> - CPU usage on the SERVER is about 1-2%,
> - Disk & memory usage is also at the very low level,
> - CPU on my computer is about 2-4% used,
> - Network utilization is at the level of 0,1-0,5% (!!!!!!!!)
>
> When I installed the SERVER with the same share on Win2000 SP4, the
> problem
> was exactly the same - low network load while reading the folder.
>
> When I connected old Windows Millennium computer to the share on the
> SERVER
> the same operation (reading folder contents) took only a few
> seconds!!!!!!!
>
> My question is: what can I do (configure) to make reading that shared
> folder
> in a few seconds, not in minutes??????
>
> Please, help me!!!
>
> Kind regards,
> Michal
>

"CreateWindow" wrote:

> Hi Michal,
>
> I'm not sure what is going on here. You may like to download the *free*
> Microsoft Network Monitor version 3.0 and load it on the XP PC.
>
> Open Netmon and click on the Create New capture tab button. Push the "Play"
> (record) button and have a look at the network traffic. After capturing 30
> seconds worth of packets. Have a look for TCP errors or strange IP
> behaviour.
>
> I found a problem myself the other day doing just that. One of my Vista test
> (MSDN) installations was taking an **obscenely long time** to enumerate a
> network share. 1 minute!!! My Windows 2003 box opened the folder instantly.
> I found the reason - a 1 GB zip file in the share root! Vista was
> enumerating the files inside the ZIP file over the network and taking
> forever. Yet another Vista feature that is mor like a bug!
>
> I'm not saying that's your problem. I'm just suggesting that looking at the
> actual traffic may help you and educate you on a bit of networking trickery
> at the same time. ;-)
> Have fun
>
> CreateWindow
> http://justpageprobe.com
> The FREE Web page utility you always wanted.
> Keep your router connected.
> Email your IP to where you need it.
> Monitor your enterprise Web Servers.
>
>
> "Michal" <Mic***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AABDD510-30CC-47B4-8B7F-0FD169A8834B@microsoft.com...
> >I have a new computer (let's call it SERVER) with WinXP Pro SP2 (Pentium D
> > 3.2, 1GB of RAM, 100Mbit/s ethernet) which shares a folder in my network.
> > This folder contains approximately 5 000 - 10 000 files. Half of them are
> > images (JPEG) and the other ones are short description files in binary
> > format. These files occupy 2-3GB of storage space.
> >
> > The problem is when I open this shared folder from the SERVER on my
> > computer
> > it takes about 2-3 minutes to wait for displaying folder contents. My
> > computer is also WinXP Pro SP2 (a little slower than the server).
> >
> > While shared folder contents are being read from the SERVER I observed:
> > - CPU usage on the SERVER is about 1-2%,
> > - Disk & memory usage is also at the very low level,
> > - CPU on my computer is about 2-4% used,
> > - Network utilization is at the level of 0,1-0,5% (!!!!!!!!)
> >
> > When I installed the SERVER with the same share on Win2000 SP4, the
> > problem
> > was exactly the same - low network load while reading the folder.
> >
> > When I connected old Windows Millennium computer to the share on the
> > SERVER
> > the same operation (reading folder contents) took only a few
> > seconds!!!!!!!
> >
> > My question is: what can I do (configure) to make reading that shared
> > folder
> > in a few seconds, not in minutes??????
> >
> > Please, help me!!!
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michal
> >
>
>
>

"Michal" wrote:

> Hello,
> I ran the Microsoft Network Monitor on both machines (Server and Client) and
> saw nothing wrong. There were no TCP errors or other bad events while reading
> folder contents from Server.
>
> I also ran Process Monitor and File Monitor on both machines and everything
> seems to fine. The server was almost totally idle with exception of
> explorer.exe process which regularly queried some values from system
> registry. File Monitor showed no activity (perhaps folder contents are read
> by some kernel-level driver).
> On the client File Monitor showed explorer.exe reading the folder. Network
> load was about 0,45% of total bandwidth (100mbit/s).
>
> I'm quite sure that it's not cable/switch/NIC problem. Copying large file
> between the server and the client using the same network share uses 100% of
> network bandwidth.
>
> Also there are no ZIP files on the network share.
>
> Next thing:
> Network share contains JPG images. Suppose that I open one of them on the
> client using IrfanView program. The picture loads immediately, but IrfanView
> also reads the folder contents to show how many files in that folder it is
> able to display. It is not making any previews or reading properties - just a
> file list that it can handle. Reading the folder by IrfanView has exactly the
> same problem that explorer.exe has - it takes about 2-3 minutes.
>
> I wonder how it would be on Windows Server sharing the same folder. Would it
> be the same story as is with XP Pro? However I cannot check this because I'm
> not using Windows Server software.
>
> Or maybe some performance tunning is needed (modifying some registry entries)?
>
> I also wonder why Windows Millennium client reads the same network share
> fast enough (a few seconds). Maybe it is not reading full file attributes
> from the Server's NTFS filesystem, while Windows 2000 and XP does? But why
> there is such a huge time difference between these systems???
>
> So I'm still waiting for the solution...
> Kind regards,
> Michal
>
> "CreateWindow" wrote:
>
> > Hi Michal,
> >
> > I'm not sure what is going on here. You may like to download the *free*
> > Microsoft Network Monitor version 3.0 and load it on the XP PC.
> >
> > Open Netmon and click on the Create New capture tab button. Push the "Play"
> > (record) button and have a look at the network traffic. After capturing 30
> > seconds worth of packets. Have a look for TCP errors or strange IP
> > behaviour.
> >
> > I found a problem myself the other day doing just that. One of my Vista test
> > (MSDN) installations was taking an **obscenely long time** to enumerate a
> > network share. 1 minute!!! My Windows 2003 box opened the folder instantly.
> > I found the reason - a 1 GB zip file in the share root! Vista was
> > enumerating the files inside the ZIP file over the network and taking
> > forever. Yet another Vista feature that is mor like a bug!
> >
> > I'm not saying that's your problem. I'm just suggesting that looking at the
> > actual traffic may help you and educate you on a bit of networking trickery
> > at the same time. ;-)
> > Have fun
> >
> > CreateWindow
> > http://justpageprobe.com
> > The FREE Web page utility you always wanted.
> > Keep your router connected.
> > Email your IP to where you need it.
> > Monitor your enterprise Web Servers.
> >
> >
> > "Michal" <Mic***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:AABDD510-30CC-47B4-8B7F-0FD169A8834B@microsoft.com...
> > >I have a new computer (let's call it SERVER) with WinXP Pro SP2 (Pentium D
> > > 3.2, 1GB of RAM, 100Mbit/s ethernet) which shares a folder in my network.
> > > This folder contains approximately 5 000 - 10 000 files. Half of them are
> > > images (JPEG) and the other ones are short description files in binary
> > > format. These files occupy 2-3GB of storage space.
> > >
> > > The problem is when I open this shared folder from the SERVER on my
> > > computer
> > > it takes about 2-3 minutes to wait for displaying folder contents. My
> > > computer is also WinXP Pro SP2 (a little slower than the server).
> > >
> > > While shared folder contents are being read from the SERVER I observed:
> > > - CPU usage on the SERVER is about 1-2%,
> > > - Disk & memory usage is also at the very low level,
> > > - CPU on my computer is about 2-4% used,
> > > - Network utilization is at the level of 0,1-0,5% (!!!!!!!!)
> > >
> > > When I installed the SERVER with the same share on Win2000 SP4, the
> > > problem
> > > was exactly the same - low network load while reading the folder.
> > >
> > > When I connected old Windows Millennium computer to the share on the
> > > SERVER
> > > the same operation (reading folder contents) took only a few
> > > seconds!!!!!!!
> > >
> > > My question is: what can I do (configure) to make reading that shared
> > > folder
> > > in a few seconds, not in minutes??????
> > >
> > > Please, help me!!!
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Michal
> > >
> >
> >
> >

>I have a new computer (let's call it SERVER) with WinXP Pro SP2 (Pentium D
>3.2, 1GB of RAM, 100Mbit/s ethernet) which shares a folder in my network.
>This folder contains approximately 5 000 - 10 000 files. Half of them are
>images (JPEG) and the other ones are short description files in binary
>format. These files occupy 2-3GB of storage space.
>
>The problem is when I open this shared folder from the SERVER on my computer
>it takes about 2-3 minutes to wait for displaying folder contents. My
>computer is also WinXP Pro SP2 (a little slower than the server).
>
>While shared folder contents are being read from the SERVER I observed:
> - CPU usage on the SERVER is about 1-2%,
> - Disk & memory usage is also at the very low level,
> - CPU on my computer is about 2-4% used,
> - Network utilization is at the level of 0,1-0,5% (!!!!!!!!)
>
>When I installed the SERVER with the same share on Win2000 SP4, the problem
>was exactly the same - low network load while reading the folder.
>
>When I connected old Windows Millennium computer to the share on the SERVER
>the same operation (reading folder contents) took only a few seconds!!!!!!!
>
>My question is: what can I do (configure) to make reading that shared folder
>in a few seconds, not in minutes??????
>
>Please, help me!!!
>
>Kind regards,
>Michal