Can anyone else try to confirm this?
I installed Samba and exported a drive that I have connected (4GB flash drive). Everything was successfull and I was able to connect to the share from my Windows 7 PC. When I created a new folder, everything was good... text file, good. When I copied a small PDF, still good.
Then I tried a .iso. A ~260MB iso copied, but took awhile. But then when I tried a larger (~600MB) iso... it failed. Windows said it was unable to connect to the share.
Here's what I know.
- From doing near constant "ls -lh" on the shared directory, I can see the file size growing... but there is next to zero network traffic. Once it reaches the file size as the original is, it starts using network traffic.
- When I try to copy a large file (the smallest large file I had was 160MB), the CPU usage goes way up and stays there until the file transfer finishes.
Is the processor simply too slow to handle a large network transfer?