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3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 20:24
by mats_o
After uppgrading to 3.7 the
SMB client has lost a lot of performance compaired to 3.6.2
Directory browsing and returning to the top folder is a lot slower than 3.6.2. In the older version it was instant. No it's always Working - please wait. Has there been any changes in caching?
Is there a way to downgrade again? I currently regret uppgrading
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 20:31
by davilla
mats_o wrote: ↑19 Sep 2018, 20:24
After uppgrading to 3.7 the
SMB client has lost a lot of performance compaired to 3.6.2
Directory browsing and returning to the top folder is a lot slower than 3.6.2. In the older version it was instant. No it's always Working - please wait. Has there been any changes in caching?
Is there a way to downgrade again? I currently regret uppgrading
It's fast for me
which mrmc/
smb client ? libsmbclient, libdsm or libsmb2 ?
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 19 Sep 2018, 22:01
by mats_o
It's on an atv4K, So far I have disabled
SMB stat. Tried libsmbclient , libdsm and libdsm2. Tried forcing smb1 too.
It worked on 3.6.2, upgraded to 3.7.0 - performance a lot worse on leaving a subfolder
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 01:41
by davilla
mats_o wrote: ↑19 Sep 2018, 22:01
It's on an atv4K, So far I have disabled
SMB stat. Tried libsmbclient , libdsm and libdsm2. Tried forcing smb1 too.
It worked on 3.6.2, upgraded to 3.7.0 - performance a lot worse on leaving a subfolder
define performance. what exactly do you mean ? and how are you viewing, list or wall ?
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 15:30
by mats_o
When i do back out of a subfolder it now takes more seconds than it did with 3.6.2.
With 3.6.2 it was instant ie under one second - now it takes a number of seconds (worst case over a minute) before it shows the content of the parent folder.
Another thing I found - with MrMc skin, videos in view:list. All files are reported as 0B
Edit: I will be traveling for a few days so I might be slow to respond.
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 17:32
by mats_o
And another thing
the Allow sources on Home screen feature - the reason why I did upgrade (something I deeply regrets) doesn't work on any skin besides Ariana and Opacity
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 23:38
by davilla
mats_o wrote: ↑20 Sep 2018, 15:30
When i do back out of a subfolder it now takes more seconds than it did with 3.6.2.
With 3.6.2 it was instant ie under one second - now it takes a number of seconds (worst case over a minute) before it shows the content of the parent folder.
Another thing I found - with MrMc skin, videos in view:list. All files are reported as 0B
Edit: I will be traveling for a few days so I might be slow to respond.
"it did" did what ? Be specific please.
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 23 Sep 2018, 17:18
by mats_o
When I do back out of a subfolder with 3.70 it takes a very long time to show the content of the parent folder. In worst case over one minute
When I did back out of a subfolder with 3.6.2 it took les than 1 second
So in worst case 3.7.0 is at least 60 times slower then 3.6.2
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 02:34
by davilla
Guessing you mean that covers images take longer to populate ?
If so, it was a late bugfix for an issue deep in core that results in a missing cover(s) images. Multi-threaded item fetching was forces serial to prevent this which results in slower cover population.
High on our hit list to fix and restore is multi-threaded item fetching. It has nothing to do with file protocol (
smb, nfs, etc).
Re: 3.7 SMB Client very slow
Posted: 29 Sep 2018, 15:09
by mats_o
I must do more tests to be realy sure bit i don’t think so.
As l’m still traveling it Will be a couple of days before I can do that but my opinion is that the delay is before it tries to load any pictures/art.
Should changing to listview increase performance IF it is the problem you think it is (trying to cerater a good testcase)