I started getting miserable performance after upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04. It's affecting any and all apps being served by gvfs: Nemo, Nautilus, mplayer, Firefox—anything at all that's accessing a remote filesystem. Again, tests with simply sftp-ing files around or using proper cifs mounts show dramatic speed increases.
In this case, I'm getting ~500KiB/s with gvfs and ~80MIB/s without. The server I'm testing against was also recently upgraded (12.04 -> 13.04 via 12.10), but I've confirmed that my scheduled rsyncs between the file server and the backup file server (also 13.04, slower hardware) can crack ~110MiB/s. The laptop I'm on only supports "half-jumbo" frames (MTU 4,078), whereas the primary and backup file servers are using full-size (MTU 9,000) frames, so I know why speed is capped at ≤ 80MiB/s in this case. Does anyone know how to mess with gvfs knobs, short of replacing binaries with scripts? Things like /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse support ~60 cmdline parms that we could be experimenting with. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 Title: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share Status in GVFS: Confirmed Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Problem ======= Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB. Workaround ========== Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going: # sudo -s # mkdir /mnt/cifs # mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER "//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at /mnt/cifs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1075923/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
