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Avoid a long system lockup related to sleeping shares
Authored by: HugoV on May 22, '07 05:25:48PM

I use NFS at home (between 3 Macs and 2 Linux machines), and it's pretty reliable (provided you mount and unmount it manually from the terminal, rather than through Finder). If, on a laptop, you have the NFS server mounted, and go off the network (WiFi goes out of range etc), Finder will hang if you try and navigate to the server, but otherwise it's fine, and no other applications seem to be effected.

A related problem: all the network file system options (NFS, SMB, AFP, ...) on Mac OSX seem to be really poorly implemented and slow. Between two Macs directly connected to one another with a cross over cable, I can't seem to get more than a few megs/second over either AFP or SMB, and the CPU usage is really high (almost 100% on my old 867MHz PB G4). Between two 700 MHz Pentium 3 Linux boxes over either SMB or NFS, I can saturate the 100baseT network (i.e. 12.5 MB/second). Why is networking and Finder on Mac OS X still so poor??



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35-50MB/s here
Authored by: pumilamac on Jul 03, '07 03:28:12AM

My old G4 Quicksilver Towers transfer files at about 35MB/s over AFP directly to each other. My newer G5 Towers (June 2004 and Late 2005) transfer at 50MB/s minimum over AFP on a home network switch.

I don't know if there is something wrong with your set up but it sure seems odd to me. I'm transferring lots of large files over the network (100-1000 MB per file) so it's not unusual for copies to take half and hour or so. If you're copying lots of small files it may be slower but I would think it would still hit 12MB/s.

Anyway here is another vote for fixing the hang when a network share is lost. Does anyone know if you can change the timeout setting?



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