Problem:
What performance can be expected from Fileshare?
Resolution:
The overhead of running Fileshare is considerable. This is only counteracted as the number of concurrent users increases. For example:
Time taken to write 100 records.
Users Non-FS FS
1 0.1 seconds 1.0 second
5 0.5 seconds 1.2 seconds
10 1.5 seconds 1.4 seconds
and so on... These times are not "real" and just used to demonstrate the point. Single user, non Fileshare I/O should always outperform Fileshare. The other advantages of Fileshare are file integrity and transaction processing.
You may want to look at running your Fileshare server with the /SC option. This gives more consistent performance in a Windows environment. You will need to define a password file (with just a supervisor ID) for this to work.
