We have a really poor business application that uses access databases (I know, fail!) as its back end. There are lots of access db files it uses, all about 4mb in size.
If I copy the files locally to a server, it performs a lot better than if the files are sat on a network smb share, the files are all on the same box, I have just tested by changed c:\files\ to \server\files.
Its probably about 50% faster when pointing locally. The disks are raid 1+0 15k, so they should be fast, running on windows 2008 (not r2) on x86 architecture. There is nothing else on the box, or anyone else accessing it.
Anyone got any ideas why it would be so much slower accessing the files over unc, and any tip I might be able to look into to speed it up?
Cheers Luke
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