Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 23:47:59 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 14:29:08 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 11:24:46 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using > > > it. In which case someone has

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Feb 2020 at 10:38:19 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. > >> rsync? > > Sure, if you're

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. >> rsync? > Sure, if you're updating a tree. But AIUI the OP is transferring > a kernel source archive

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-08 Thread elvis
just an ssh -Y connection, which may at times be supplemented as I also use an sshfs "mount", which works well as long as its user 1000 on both ends of the cable. Root access is disallowed going either way as part of my security model here. I've long since given up on ever keeping an nfs

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 feb 20, 23:47:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using > > > it. In which case someone has been playing with mc that has no clue > > > what they are doing. > > Because mc, 22+ years ago was pretty much self-contained. Now,

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 14:29:08 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 11:24:46 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 07 February 2020 10:20:45 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 08:12:18 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I was trying different ways to move a kernel

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 18:49:20 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 16:24:51 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > also claims to be a gigahertz capable switch. > > > > IIRC gigabit ethernet doesn't run at gigahertz frequencies. > > > > > But file moves to/from the machines in the

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 16:57:59 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > > benefits of compression and aggregation. > > rsync? Sure, if you're updating a tree.

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 16:24:51 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > also claims to be a gigahertz capable switch. > > IIRC gigabit ethernet doesn't run at gigahertz frequencies. > > > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > benefits of compression and aggregation. rsync? Stefan

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> also claims to be a gigahertz capable switch. IIRC gigabit ethernet doesn't run at gigahertz frequencies. > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s someplace in that path. Is that really 10Mb/s (aka ~1MB/s)?

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 11:24:46 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 10:20:45 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 08:12:18 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I was trying different ways to move a kernel src to the pi for > > > making and also reached the conclusion

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-07 16:24, Gene Heskett wrote: I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using it. In which case someone has been playing with mc that has no clue what they are doing. mick@slinky:~$ mc [connect shell link option] fish: Waiting for initial line... Enter

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 07, 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 05:53:05 Dan Purgert wrote: >> [...] >> a "gigahertz" switch? neat :) (I think you meant gigabit again). > > Guilty. Blame it on oldtimers. Hehe, and I was busy scouring Amazon too... > [...] > Anyway, I found an answer, iperf

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 10:20:45 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 08:12:18 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > I was trying different ways to move a kernel src to the pi for > > making and also reached the conclusion that mc was for some reason > > terminally slow at unpacking an .xz

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 08:12:18 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > I was trying different ways to move a kernel src to the pi for making and > also reached the conclusion that mc was for some reason terminally slow > at unpacking an .xz kernel and writing the unpack across the network. It > was

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread songbird
Gene Heskett wrote: ... > So I stopped that, killed the partial copy, backed out and copied the > whole image to the pi in just 2 or 3 minutes, with mc, then unxz'd it on > the pi in maybe 3 minutes. Made sure it was set for arch/arm with a > bcm2835_defconfig, verified it said fully

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 06:24:10 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, at 07:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s someplace in that path. > > Later you said: > > But on really big

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, at 07:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s someplace in that path. Later you said: > But on really big writes, the ssd's decay to around 17-20 mb/s. Surely here you meant

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 05:53:05 Dan Purgert wrote: > On Feb 07, 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that > > claims to be a gigabit and managed. > > > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream port of another

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 07, 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that claims > to be a gigabit and managed. > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream port of another dumber > unmanaged 8 port switch that feeds the machines in the

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 03:55:32 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 07 feb 20, 03:12:08, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Which tells me its the poor prolonged write speeds of the ssd's that > > are the main contributors to the slow big files problem. Not much I > > can do about that. It is what it is. >

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 feb 20, 03:12:08, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Which tells me its the poor prolonged write speeds of the ssd's that are > the main contributors to the slow big files problem. Not much I can do > about that. It is what it is. If you're into testing you could try transferring to/from RAM

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 02:44:11 john doe wrote: > On 2/7/2020 8:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that > > claims to be a gigabit and managed. > > > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream port of

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 02:17:59 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 07 feb 20, 02:04:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that > > claims to be a gigabit and managed. > > > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-06 Thread john doe
On 2/7/2020 8:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that claims > to be a gigabit and managed. > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream port of another dumber > unmanaged 8 port switch that feeds the machines in the

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2020 02:17:59 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 07 feb 20, 02:04:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that > > claims to be a gigabit and managed. > > > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 feb 20, 02:04:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My local network has 2 8 port switches, one here in this room that claims > to be a gigabit and managed. > > One of its ports is connected to the upstream port of another dumber > unmanaged 8 port switch that feeds the