On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
? 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?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'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.
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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