Speed of saving of Word over CIFS

[tbee]

I know that accessing the WebDav interface via Office has problems, so I setup CIFS on Ubuntu 9 and it works great. With one exception; saving from certain Microsoft applications. I did a bunch of tests to illustrate. Saving to Alfresco CIFS from:
- Word: 60 seconds
- samen document from Writer (open office): 3 seconds
- a simple Excel: 2 seconds
- a complex Excel: 6 seconds
- a 21 slide powerpoint: 8 seconds
- a JPG directly into a RAR on the Alfresco CIFS: 2 seconds
- a jpg in Paint.Net; instant
- a jpg in MSPaint; 50 seconds
- a text from Notepad++: instant.
- same text from MSNotepad: 30 seconds
- a sql query from DBVisualizer: instant
- FTP download of a 100k JPG with FileZilla directly to the Alfresco CIFS: instant
- a Adobe Illustrator document: 8 seconds
- print the 21 page powerpoint to a PDF using CutePDF: 3 seconds

For some reason MSWord, MSNotepad and MSPaint are very very slow, but MSExcel and MSPowerpoint are ok. Saving from MSOutlook is slow as well (most likely because it uses MSWord internally).

Is there anyone who has experienced something similar and more importantly; what is causing it and how can I solve it? What is MSWord doing while saving?

[mikeh]

No. It was not available at the time this project was running. Too bad though, I would have prefered keeping Alfresco.

OK - thanks for the feedback. Hopefully you'll keep us in mind for a future project :wink:

Thanks,
Mike

[neil_benn]

Ah good to hear thanks Mike - I will try upgrading but I have a problem in that I have entries in my store database for which there is no corresponding physical file and until I can clear that up (ie remove the entries from the database) I don't want to risk an upgrade.

[mrogers]

There's also quite a lot of CIFS work in the latest Enterprise 3.4 service packs so if you are using Enterprise 3.4 it will probably be worth taking a service pack.

[neil_benn]

Hello,

         I'm happy to jump to v4 - is there any chance I could get some advice on how to purge empty entries from Alfresco - I have an entry in the db but no corresponding file on disk?  I will then upgrade and report back if it has fixed the issue.

Cheers,

Neil

[neil_benn]

Hello,

        I have upgraded to Alfresco 4.0 and office documents can be edited now.  It has introduced a few other problem snow but this problem is now fixed!

Regards,

Neil