Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I was aware that there is SMB overhead - just didn't think it would be > that great!
It's not necessarily overhead as in "extra data" but also round trip delay times. SMB was designed for use with a low-latency local network connection, in contrast to FTP which was designed to just stream raw data over a TCP connection. In other words there's a bunch of message passing and other "overhead" that takes TIME in addition to bandwith with SMB. > > IOW, this is not really Cygwin-related. > > This is true if such large overhead is only attributable to SMB. I think you'll find that the Cygwin "cp" command takes about the same time as "copy" from a regular command prompt, which should also be comparable to Explorer's copy function. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
