[X4U] OT: NAS Slows to a Crawl

Neil lists at mac.com
Wed May 9 15:40:18 PDT 2007


OK, to be 100% accurate, opening the folder wasn't the very first  
thing I did after restart.  I had an error message about afp_mount  
needing access to my keychain.  I Googled afp_mount and dismissed  
that error message.  Then, I tried to open a folder on the SMB share.

On May 9, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Neil wrote:

> I have a Buffalo Terrastation 2TB NAS RAID connected via SMB.  It  
> always feels slower than a NFS+ device connected via Firewire or  
> USB2, but this has gotten ridiculously slow recently.  Now, it  
> takes several minutes just to open a folder.  It takes several more  
> minutes just to move a group of files to another folder.   I tried  
> restarting.  That helped for a couple hours once, but not the last  
> time.  I just restarted and the first thing after restart I tried  
> to open a folder on the SMB share and it still hasn't opened in the  
> time it has taken me to launch mail and type this message.  Does  
> anybody have any ideas?
>
> Neil
> PowerMac G5/2x2, 1.5gigs RAM, Mac o/s 10.4.9
> connected to the NAS via a TRENDnet gigabit switch

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