Slow network performace reading files line-by-line

Kev

Lifer
Dec 17, 2001
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I'm using this reporting software called Webtrends that reads the web log file line by line and generates a report.

When it reads the files from the network share, it is incredibly slow (takes 3 hrs to report on 3 months of data), however if I copy the logs to a location on my hard drive, it runs perfectly (6 minutes for 3 months of data).

Now these log files are on a web server machine. It's not slow by any means. The only situation it is slow is when I'm doing these reports. Is there some server setting that could be slowing it down when it tries to read files line by line?

FYI There is another web server that I read the log files from remotely & it works just fine. So I don't know why this one is so slow.