Hi

What is the network's loss and delay characteristics between the two? i.e is it 
a LAN connect? is it WAN - we successfully replicate volumes of 2/3GB over 400k 
ADSL (while doing other things over the line) over a OpenVPN connection, what 
was important to us was to get the fragmentation under control so that packet 
loss at the transmission layer matched what AFS though was a packet - otherwise 
things really ground to a halt and transactions failed.

Unless the link between the two end points is close to perfect (in terms of 
loss and delay variance) I would be very careful in making RX packets span 
multiple UDP packets on the transmission medium, check MTU sizes carefully.

Don't set your expectations at 3mbit/s AFS data transfer - there are headers to 
be accounted for - check what level of the protocol Iperf is really reporting 
at.

Neil

On 31 Jan 2012, at 19:24, muayad y wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am trying to replicate RO volume 31GB on server, where upload speed 
> 6Mbit/s and download speed ~24Mbit/s on that server. However, replication is 
> taking so long ~ 1.3 Mbit/s. with Iperf  over UDP can obtain up 3Mbit/s, when 
> using -bandwidth option.  
> 
> - I am wondering if there is similar option that I can pass to volserver ?
> - read volserver docs and there is -udpsize option, the docs does not say 
> much, so I am not sure how to use it, or if I need to change linux kernel 
> params to make it work.
> 
> Thanks for your help. 
> 
> 

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