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I suppose the problem is with the cifs module. I will try to compare it to samba, and see which gives the best performance.
I've to admit that atm I'm a little bit confused because someone tell me that cifs is better than smbfs and someone said the exactly contrary

First of all, I'd like to say thanks too, this is a must have app, hat's off to you. Secondly, "me too" on the speed issue. I peaked at 250K, average aroung 100K actual data.

What seems odd is that the cpu is idle when copying, I expected it to be the cause. Plenty bandwidth, plenty CPU, what could be the issue?

ETA: Sometimes it's not just slow, it's jumpy. It sleeps for a second, then jumps forward about 500K/s, then sleeps. Perhaps delayed buffers?

I actually mounted the same share via nfs and got considerably better speeds, peaking at almost 1800KB/s but it fluctuated wildly. Streaming was thus marginally better. There is def a problem with the cifs module though.

Did you notice if the CPU was peaked?

It topped out at roughly 950KB/s (averaring about 600) this time but cpu load never broke 40%.

I found a bug don't know if its been reported yet.
I was trying to mount a samba share to a vista laptop. Every time I kept getting permission denied. All details seemed correct share dir, username, password ect. It was only when I entered the password with the keyboard closed using the on screen keyboard that I noticed it wasn't entering a @ symbol ,which is part of my password, when entering it with the hardware keyboard. Entered it with onscreen keyboard and everyhing worked great.
Great application by the way

I did documented this in the cifs thread; but if you use ",direct" as part of the mounting command line you will typically get better performance. When I helped get WizardMounter to work on the n900 I was unaware of that -- it was something I found out after simular speed issues where discussed on my cifs thread. ; so I suspect that WM does not use ",direct" at this point in time.

However, if you do any research on cifs you will see that it has a lot of overhead so it probably will never be as fast as nfs or even sshfs. The cifs module that is compiled has _not_ been modified from what was shipped with the kernel. So if their are any issues with it -- it is basically because it is still under development by the cifs kernel team.

Nathan.

Hey,
How about a Wizard export function? A SMB share like MyDocs to be able to mount it on Windows boxes?

@Nathan : the current version of Wizard Mounter doesn't have the "direct" support, if it really help to increase performance then I will add it for the next release.

@les_garten : we need the nfs/smb server support on the kernel, I don't know if atm is available.

I don't get wizard-mounter working with windows 7.

Server Address: 192.168.2.4
Remote Directory: D
Username: Guest
Password:

When I try to mount, I got the permission denied error.