OK, I’ve got a question for you guys and gals, because I’m not finding a good answer. Here’s the situation: Vista SP1 uploading a 4-gig virtual machine to a Windows Server 2008 file server (not beta, not R2). The problem: BIG delays.
The Vista box will push about 200MB to 300MB at a time and then go into a state of suspended animation, where it just sits and seemingly does nothing for about two minutes. Then it seems to wake up from its stupor and push another 200MB or so, before going back into its recurring coma. I’ve tried this on two different servers and on two different workstations and the behavior is, if not identical, very similar. This is a lightly-loaded network and the transfers occurred at night, so it isn’t traffic.
I’m going to do some more testing and might even go so far as to break out the ol’ sniffer tools to examine the traffic, but before I go to those extremes, I thought I’d check with you folks out there in blog-land to see if you’ve experienced anything like this. I won’t blame Microsoft just yet because I don’t know where the problem lies, but if I put an XP client on this network and the transfer screams along as it should, then we may have one more reason to be suspicious of Vista as a network client.
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