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...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

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.

"meow123" wrote:

> "" wrote:
> > 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...
>
> 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
>
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Hi,

Same problem !!

Files shared on a 2000 server are browse very fast.
Same Files shared on a storage serveur 2003 are browse ...... very slowly !

Could you help me ?

Thanks,
Arnaud