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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?



On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:36:12AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:51:34AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:06:40AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > I don't believe that transfer will be CPU bound, but rather network and/or
> > > internal bus bandwidth limited.
> > 
> > It is not unusual for large scp jobs to be CPU bound when slow-to-modest
> > systems are connected to fast networks.
> 
> How fast are we talking about - GbE, or 100Mb?

100mbit.  Compare scp to FTP or netcat.

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 - mdz



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