retrieving dir struct. very slow trough windows explorer

[henk]

Whenever I access my Alfresco Server trough the windows explorer / mapped share it goes very slow…

How to solve this? Because it takes like 7 seconds to fully load a directory with 1000 files or so.

Already tested network connectivity *which is fine (100mbit)
Hardware of the Server is also fine *(which is above recommended)
Hardware of the client pc is fine too :]

whenever I access it trough the web interface it loads just fine (in webdav too)

any clues ?

- debian linux installation with alfresco community 2.1 release - tomcat, openoffice, java

[mikeh]

Windows Explorer really doesn't scale well when viewing more than a few hundred files.

Is there any way you can split your files into folders?

Thanks,
Mike

[henk]

shouldnt it just function correctly by showing the files immediatly?

[mikeh]

shouldnt it just function correctly by showing the files immediatly?

That would be nice, but unfortunately Microsoft didn't code it that way!

Mike

[henk]

If I am right this is the CIFS server being "slow" right ????

[mikeh]

There are two "slowdown" effects here:

1 - Yes, the CIFS server is slower than a "native" network drive, simply because there's more going on than a bog-standard file system (i.e. the Alfresco repository). It's also dependent on the performance of your database server and it's filesystem.

2 - Windows Explorer really doesn't scale well over a few hundred files over a network. Try browsing a "normal" network folder share containing 1000 files and you'll see the problem.

Thanks,
Mike

[henk]

Well it seems the MySQL database is maybe also slowing it down.
Is there anything faster then MySQL or is there some way of tuning it for Alfresco ?

The database is hosted on the same server as where alfresco is hosted on.

[jcblitz]

Well it seems the MySQL database is maybe also slowing it down.
Is there anything faster then MySQL or is there some way of tuning it for Alfresco ?

The database is hosted on the same server as where alfresco is hosted on.

What did you do to determine MySQL might be slowing it down?