[X4U] OT: NAS Slows to a Crawl

[Neil]

I accidentally replied to this one off list.  I said thanks, but this  
is an SMB share, which I think means that it is NOT an AFP volume.   
The AFP mount that gave me the error message must have been because I  
have another Mac on my network that I mount on this Mac.  I think  
that error message is unrelated to this slow SMB NAS.

I can't run Disk Utilities on the NAS because it isn't formatted for  
Mac.  I restarted my Mac, but I haven't thought of restarting the NAS  
until now.  I'll wait for my finder to stop spinning the beach ball  
so I can unmount the NAS and reboot it.  I'll reply to the list with  
the result.  Thanks.

On May 9, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Rick Smykla wrote:

> Neil,
>
> Don't know if this applies, but Apple just posted info about  
> afp_mount errors here:
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305395>
>
> Rick
>
> On May 9, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Neil wrote:
>
>> 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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