On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:47:47 +0100 Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> allegedly wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:39 +0100, mick wrote: > > Depends what you mean by "fast". But in real world usage (pulling a > > video file from store) it is about three times faster than an NSLU2. > > Consider the following tests using scp to grab a 1.1 GB video file > > (so some overhead in the encryption as opposed to a straight wire > > copy) > > In my experience the encryption and other overheads from ssh are a bit > more than 'some'. Just tested a big file copy from my Sheevaplug and I > get 6MB/s from scp, and 38MB/s over nfs. > :-) Yep - but both devices were treated the same. The point is the comparison between the two devices. The slug has a slow CPU, little memory and slow networking hardware. The DNS is faster (but not, I'll concede, "fast"). --------------------------------------------------------------------- blog: baldric.net fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 Note that I have recently upgraded my GPG key see: http://baldric.net/2012/07/20/gpg-key-upgrade/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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