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VMware Server 2.0 Linux Guest Samba issue

Asked by Uvault in Microsoft Virtual Server, Red Hat Linux, Samba File Server

Tags: VMware Server 2.0

Hello,

I am running VMWare Server 2.0 on Server 2008, and i have a CentOS 5.3 Guest running on the machine. I mount a windows share using CIFS through the fstab to a shared folder on the Server 2008. For all intensive purposes, we will say the folder on the linux side is called /samba that is mounted to the windows share through samba.

Now after a couple days, if i copy a file from /samba to any other folder on the linux system, it is painfully slow (maybe 10kbs throughput). But  .. if i copy from the local linux file system to the samba share, its fast (gigabyte speed like it should be)  if i reboot the linux server, then the throughput is restored to normal speeds, but after a couple of hours its back down to nothing.

Any idea why copying from a mounted ntfs share to a linux folder becomes so slow after a couple of hours.

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