Re: Writing to a Windows server instead of to the IFS

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with you, Booth...   20+ minutes to write 50,000 rows?  That's 
slow to the point of absurdity.  Something is wrong.

I also agree with Mike Crump -- using the IFS interface to write to 
NetClient or serving out a file with NetServer will never be as fast as 
a Windows server.  However, 50,000 records taking 20+ minutes is more 
than just being a little slower.  It's ridiculously slow.  My CISC 
machine from 1993 wasn't THAT slow.

Something else is doing on here.

Booth, could you please clarify what is meant by "IFS" in all of your 
statistics?  Are you writing the file to /QNTC?  Or the root file 
system?  When you say you're doing drag/drop to the desktop, where are 
you dragging/dropping from?  From NetServer on i5/OS?  If so, what is 
the underlying file system (the root file system?)


Booth Martin wrote:
> The question that has arise is why is the IFS performance so terribly 
> slow? 
>
> We write a 50,000 row csv file to the IFS.  We opened it with Excel.  
> 20+ minutes. 
> We drag n dropped it to the desktop, 25 minutes. 
> We opened the desktop file with Excel.  22 seconds. 
> We drag n drop the desktop file to a Windows server.  A few seconds. 
> We open the copy on the Windows server with Excel, 23 seconds. 
>
> The IFS is connected from a remote connection with a T1 line.