[mafourti]

Hi

I'm downloading onto a shared folder mapped to a letter on windows using smb, but when the download start, it download a few mb and then freeze for some time (nothing is downloaded, 0 b/s), during the creation of the empty file.
I'm writing to a HDD.

The hard drive is plugged to a linux raspberry pi and formatted to ext4

This does not happen if I download onto a SSD locally.

Here is what happens using process monitor:
when the download start :
**External links are only visible to Support Staff**

After 1 minute, the download really start :
**External links are only visible to Support Staff**

the file is 8.897 Gb. I have setup to download using 2 chunks. I don't know why it really start downloading once it have pre allocated only the half (4gb) according to process monitor.

Setting to 1 chunk solve the problem, but the download speed is lower.

what can I do to improve that ?