Topic: Help Needed to speed up write speeds

[mikey777]

Ok thanks let me try that will keep you updated . Fingers crosssed

[elmarconi]

Thanks again. Ok HW config is i7 sandy bridge processor with 2Tb HDD and 16Gig DDR3 ram. I am running application on windows PC's and yes before I has a novell server ver 3.1.2. Will post HDD test shortly.

Which Windows version?

Please be as extensive as possible in your reports.  That will help.

[mikey777]

Sorry iam using windows 2000 sp4 and windows xp sp3 on workstations

[Stefano]

mmmhhh

question : which is the Role of SME?

[mikey777]

Hi .It has basically replaced the role of my Novell server as a database server to run my dos application.

[Stefano]

Hi .It has basically replaced the role of my Novell server as a database server to run my dos application.

"database server" is another thing
you are using SME as a pure file server, and you are working from Primary ibay
please follow my suggestion and let us know
please be aware that running (dos) exes from a shared folder via smb is not a good idea and, finally, you should really start a migration path toward something different

Edit: typo

[elmarconi]

I can add my experience we had with an ERP system we use.
Windows front-end, Database back-end, file-system import/export/listing.

Write speed horrible. After tracing all traffic (using procmon.exe from sysinternals )  the application generated we concluded that the application was writing in small packages, one line at a time, with a file-open and a file-close after each line.
The strange thing was that on Windows shares (on another Workstation) this was not so much a problem, but running on Samba it slowed down to a crawl. Google: samba many small writes slow http://ogre.ikratko.com/archives/347

We demonstrated this the supplier, he changed the write routine so that it buffered and then flushed the write in one file-open/write/file-close. Problem solved.