Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 05:09:47PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Michael Stone (12020-12-23): No, network speeds are traditionally measured in bits because networks transferred data in bits and telcos dealt with bits, and they sold and billed bits. Computer internals were measured in bytes and

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:27:49PM -0600, David Wright wrote: I thought Michael Stone had already covered that, by suggesting sparse files (with which I'm not familiar) A sparse file is one which has logically allocated empty (zero-filled) blocks without allocating physical blocks. You can

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 19:27:49, David Wright wrote: > > I thought Michael Stone had already covered that, by suggesting sparse > files (with which I'm not familiar) and /dev/null for conducting his > encryption tests. I don't think any other posts had covered what's > *between* the PCs, rather than

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Dec 2020 at 20:15:59 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 23 dec 20, 11:48:31, David Wright wrote: > > > > Some sort of rough calculation between the expected/nominal bit rate > > and the actual data rate achieved is certainly useful, if only to > > ascertain whether the link itself

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread George Shuklin
On 12/23/20 2:55 AM, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 11:48:31, David Wright wrote: > > Some sort of rough calculation between the expected/nominal bit rate > and the actual data rate achieved is certainly useful, if only to > ascertain whether the link itself is performing well. For that, you > need to reduce the amount of

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Dec 2020 at 16:47:21 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 23 dec 20, 10:56:36, Nicolas George wrote: > > Andy Smith (12020-12-23): > > > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit > > > > No, gigabit is 10³ bits, there is no "per second" involved either. > > > >

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:13:19AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Getting back to the original question, rsync is inherently slower because both ends do deep file inspection and handshaking to decide what data transfer is required. scp is usually faster. If you're rsyncing to a non-existent

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 11:51 pm, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:37:07PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I did some tests and found there was around a 10-20% difference in speed between runs. Yes, if you want more consistent numbers you'd need much larger test file sizes; if the transfer

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Stone (12020-12-23): > No, network speeds are traditionally measured in bits because networks > transferred data in bits and telcos dealt with bits, and they sold and > billed bits. Computer internals were measured in bytes and words because > they transferred data in bytes and words. Some

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Nicolas George
Andrei POPESCU (12020-12-23): > I took that to mean the theoretical maximum. Not just that. Network protocols have many layers, and each layers adds overhead. The rates are given at the lowest level, sometimes ATM, therefore the usable rate at the application levels are significantly lower.

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:37:07PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I did some tests and found there was around a 10-20% difference in speed between runs. Yes, if you want more consistent numbers you'd need much larger test file sizes; if the transfer is taking less than a second there's a lot

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 11:03 pm, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:56:01AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Having said that, scp and ssh are affected by the encryption algorithm. The fastest one at the moment is blowfish and it's possible to get up to 50 MB/s on a gig lan. That's pretty

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:56:36AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to measure an actual speed is beyond me. The only point to speak in kilo/mega/gigabits per second instead is to make the numbers seem larger to attract clueless

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:56:01AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Having said that, scp and ssh are affected by the encryption algorithm. The fastest one at the moment is blowfish and it's possible to get up to 50 MB/s on a gig lan. That's pretty ancient advice. The fastest on most modern x86

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 10:56:36, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12020-12-23): > > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit > > No, gigabit is 10³ bits, there is no "per second" involved either. > > Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to > measure an

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread deloptes
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Mick, > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:55:58AM +, mick crane wrote: >> I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have >> gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. > > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Nicolas George
Andy Smith (12020-12-23): > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit No, gigabit is 10³ bits, there is no "per second" involved either. Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to measure an actual speed is beyond me. The only point to speak in

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:55:58AM +, mick crane wrote: > I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have > gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit; that is 10⁹ bits per

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 9:40 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote: rsync is never particularly fast as there is a lot of handshaking and file examination at each end prior to a transfer. I wouldn't be surprised at 50 Mbps. scp should be a lot faster as there is no handshaking other than establishing the session;

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 23/12/20 8:55 am, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/23/20 2:55 AM, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have > gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. > Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed > per file, either scp or rsync the

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread Bob Weber
On 12/22/20 7:55 PM, mick crane wrote: hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the

transfer speed data

2020-12-22 Thread mick crane
hello, I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box. Transferring files between them, I forget which shows the transfer speed per file, either scp or rsync the maximum is 50 Mbs per file. Would you expect