RE: disk access from XSI gone crazily slow

Date : Fri, 2 May 2008 22:25:30 -0500 (CDT)
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv>
Subject : RE: disk access from XSI gone crazily slow
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

Another thing I'd like to clarify, just to make sure:

When we say checking for mapped drive, it means drivers in My Computer
in Windows Explorer.  They don't need to be used by the XSI project,
it's not related to the project.  It's scanning "My Computer" in order
to build the file open dialog that gets stuck on network timeout.  You
need to unmapped these drive letters, if any.


On this note you can reduce much of the absurd 2 minute timeouts for network resources by disabling the "WebClient" service in the service under Manage My Computer (right cilck My Computer). This worthless service is for using front page to upload files to a web server. It does not influence your computer as a "client" to the web.


Disabling this can solve all kinds of crazy network hangups. I disable it on every machine. With it enabled, windows tries to connect to a non-existent, or firewalled web server on every computer it interacs with. If this port is firewalled and simply drops packets it takes quite some time for it to time out...


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