1.5.19 slow access to shares

[Igor Peshansky]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> I have a network share (//xcocluster1/vpg) mounted to g:.  Depending
> on which name I try to access it with I get radically different access
> times:
>
> mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
> $ time ls //xcocluster1/vpg
> Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/
>
> real    0m10.875s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.062s
>
> mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
> $ time ls g:
> Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/
>
> real    0m0.063s
> user     0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.015s
>
> mhirsch@xcomhirsch20 ~
> $ time ls //xcocluster1/vpg
> Presentations/  appdist/  backups/  buildenv/  conf/  opt/  sysgen/  users/
>
> real    0m17.094s
> user    0m0.046s
> sys      0m0.046s
>
> I couldn't find and explanation for this.  Is this normal?  Is there a
> way to make them both fast?
>
> Running a similar command in the windows CMD window yields fast
> accesses, regarless of whether I refer to drive letter or machine WINS
> name.

When you use the WINS name, Cygwin does some processing of the network
share path itself, whereas with the g: drive it delegates to Windows.  I
don't know if it's always possible to delegate to Windows when the WINS
name is specified.
	Igor
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