topic Re: Slow performance when streaming in ThinApp

Slow performance when streaming

JoJoGabor — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:46:58 GMT

I have several applications that are noticably slower when streaming from a CIFS fileshare. If I copy the Thinapp files locally it runs much faster. The performance of the CIFS share is pretty good, being able to copy down large thinapp files at a rate of around 280MB/sec. The application I am looking at currently is around 270MB in size.

What could be causing this, or how can I troubleshoot it?

Re: Slow performance when streaming

pbjork — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:06:16 GMT

By far the most common reason is antivirus on access scanning. Please exclude the network share from being scanned by your clients. The share should be read and execute only and the file server can perform antivirus scanning instead so it should be safe.

Re: Slow performance when streaming

JoJoGabor — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:32:16 GMT

I tried disabling AV completely after your answer, but the application is still slow. Is there anything else I can look at?

Re: Slow performance when streaming

shrivastavaa — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:54:22 GMT

Is it specific to CIFS. (It shouldn't be; I guess).

Ideally the second launch should be faster if the reason is due to network. As in second case, some of the data will already be cached by system cache manager. Is this is what you are observing?