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Very slow performance copying encrypted files to a network share. Gabriel/TFI 10-27-2006
Posted by Gabriel/TFI on October 27, 2006, 6:01 pm
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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



Posted by Gary Reynolds on October 30, 2006, 1:54 pm
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Hi Gabriele,

I've seen a similar problem before caused by SMB signing have a look at this
article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321169/en-us and this one for
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
>
>



Posted by Gabriel/TFI on December 12, 2006, 1:30 pm
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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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