Re: funny idle time from time
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Sebastian Schaffert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS. Over my 10MBit coax
> > network. From a Pentium 166 to a Pentium 133. I don't know any other
> > network file serving protocol that can do this.
>
> Usually (untuned), you don't get much more on a 100MBit system. If you tune it
> (set e.g. rsize/wsize to more reasonable values), you get a speedup to around
> 3MB/s (at least that's what I experienced), while with FTP you get around
> 8-9 MB/s. The servers were 4x Xeon with 2GB of RAM and Hardware RAID5, the
> clients usually PIII/450.
Wouter said 800Kbyte/sec, which is at least 6.4Mbit/sec, and more when
you consider network overheads. Quite respectable on 10base2, although
better is possible with FTP.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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