"Jonas Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tested wget against ncftpget for cygwin. ncftpget performs around
> 30-50% better than wget, but it still maintains 100% CPU usage.
> However, when compared to native win32 ftp clients, wget&ncftpget
> perform very bad.
What exactly do you compare? If you compare Windows version of Wget
to native Windows tools, I guess it's understandable that the latter
are faster, since they've been designed for Windows from the start.
> I just wonder why you only get 3.5MB/s on Linux. Can you get faster
> speeds with other ftp/http clients, or is it just because our
> network testing conditions are different?
The 3.5 MB/s was not supposed to be indicative of download speed; I
only gave it to lend you perspective about my CPU usage.
But to answer the question, the machine that served the files was
pretty crappy. But I've now conducted a somewhat better test; I've
created a sparse file (`mkfile -n 1g foo' on Solaris) on a lightly
loaded server and downloaded that using HTTP.
Result: speed of 7 to 7.5 MB/s.
To compare, lftp seems to download it at 7 MB/s top.
