Re: slow samba+vim, I'm out of suggestions ...

On Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:11:26 UTC+1, dza wrote:
> I wonder why my Vim is so slow over our Windows samba share - not only opening/closing is slow - also typing and edit/insert commands are slow as well :-commands, plugins, everything.
>
> Can I tame Vim running on a fileshare? Or make it cache the files locally so it doesn't slow down?
>
> I've seen alot of suggestions, but none of them seems to do the trick.
>
> For example:
>
> nofsync
> ttyfast
> ttimeout
> timeout
>
> Thank you very much in advance, I would really like to know how I can fix this !

Hello guys - It's been some time since I last answered, but I have made some real progress since!

I was seeing alot of "NAME NOT FOUND" entries in ProcMon from www.sysinternals.com to these files:
c:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace\networksharename

I solved this simply by disabling "Offline Files"
Search in Explorer for "Offline Files" click the UAC "Disable Offline Files", needs a restart and gone are the mysterious slowing "NAME NOT FOUND" entries in ProcMon and a noticeable gain in performance in Vim :) (while not running ProcMon of course which slows things down tremendously)

I am still getting alot of "FAST IO DISALLOWED" entries. However, I am not sure if this is because of misconfiguration of SAMBA or simply because Network Shares are not having "FAST IO" ...

Other than that you are right; swap, backup, dir needs to be turned off and the current dir "." removed from the array.

I've also gained some speed by using
let g:miniBufExplCheckDupeBufs = 0
let g:miniBufExplorerMoreThanOne = 0

I still get slowdowns on several tabs with vertical and horizontal tabs when buffers starts to grow. I will keep using ProcMon and ":debug wincmd p "

":debug wincmd p" shows alot of minibufexpl calls, and that is essentially what I think is causing the slowdown between switching buffers, although the plugin is quite essential.

I still have experimented alot with/without configs and plugins and I will keep doing this.

Sincerely thanks,
Christoffer Aasted.

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