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Posted by Gabriel/TFI on December 12, 2006, 1:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi Gary,
thanks for messsage. I went through a deep testing and came to the
conslusion that the problem is EFS related only.
Did someone else experienced the same performance problem with EFS?
Gabriele.
"Gary Reynolds" wrote:
> Hi Gabriele,
>
> I've seen a similar problem before caused by SMB signing have a look at this
> general slow performance http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822219/en-us
>
> One way to test if this is the problem is to close the open explorer window
> of the server folder while copying the file.
>
> Gary.
>
> >I already posted this problem at microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
> > more than one month ago with no success, perhaps I'll be more lucky here!
> >
> > The problem is that it takes an incredibly huge amount of time copy files
> > from a local EFS-encrypted folder to an unencrypted Windows 2003 server
> > network share.
> >
> > It takes 32 minutes to copy 160MB (210 files, 57 folders), even copying
> > just
> > 14 word files (2MB) it takes around 3 minutes!
> > During the copy process the CPU was most of the time idle with some peaks,
> > of course any copy operation without encryption is normally fast.
> >
> > Tests were performed on many different PC models (Dell/IBM) with Windows
> > XP
> > and Windows Server 2003 as clients with all latest updates installed.
> >
> > I can't belive this is the common EFS performance, does anybody know how
> > to
> > fix/workaround this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Gabriele
> >
> >
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