Carel Fellinger wrote: > Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. > But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still > wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent, > then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the overhead > also in the pre/post processing, so a faster computer is wat's needed?
Check the CPU-usage to get this answered. BTW, CPU-usage can be horrible when copying a lot of small files. Once i copied a win95 direcory including ~2000 .inf files from a P133(Server) to a 486/100(client) and got a bandwidth of about 50kb/s - the nfs-server used 100% of its CPU time. - Konrad
