On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com>: > > i am using bw-ng however i am actually learning these stats from "scp" > > copy command and secondly from samba when i try to download some huge > > files from samba to windows host. my network graph bumps up n down b/w > > 200 to 300 Mbps. > > scp is a bad idea - think about all the encryption which significantly > decreases the throughput. > Read about tuning Linux network stack with sysctl. It will help in > case of samba.
Also, openssh has fixed-size transmission buffers to avoid the security issues associated with writing dynamic-sized ones. There are third-party patches that can improve SFTP performance by replacing the static buffers: http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120621131156.GG32434@debian
