On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:14 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > lorne wrote: > >On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > >>This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on > >>the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you > >>called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I > >>got the same results when initiating the transfer on my Mandrake box > >>using Konqueror and command line (cp). I call it slow because when I > >>initiate the transfer on the Win2000 box, using Windows Explorer, I get > >>the same transfer done in under a minute. Why the huge difference in > >>speed? > > > >? I think we are talking bananas and apples here. If you read my message, > > I stated that after about 9 minutes of transferring the files, I stopped > > the XP to linux copy and it was still not done. About 1-2 minutes the > > other way around. HUGE difference. You are saying a factor of 2 the > > opposite direction of what I'm seeing. I'd be most interested in knowing > > how you got that. If I could even get a 2:1 factor I'd be most happy > > indeed! I don't have hours to copy something that should take minutes. > > makes a linux server rather useless for files no? > > I'm claiming a doubling in speed to or from either machine as long as > the transfer is initiated by the Windows machine. If you initiate the > transfer on the Linux machine (using cp, Konqueror, or Nautilus), you > will get a slow transfer. > Then the issue you are having is not the same thing I'm having. Pure and simple. I'm getting roughly 150mb a minute from my linux box to XP (either direction initiated from the Linux box) 4-5mb a sec. From the XP box to (either direction initiated from the XP box) the linux box I'm getting roughly .2 mb a minute!
> >>A two minute transfer for a file that size may be fast compared to a > >>totally broken setup, but it is still half as fast as it should be. The > >>question is: what needs to be done to have file transfers initiated in > >>Linux get the same transfer speed experienced when they are initiated by > >>Windows? > >> > >>The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It > >>experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being > >>the transfer is initiated on a Linux box.
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