On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:27:02AM +0100, Christian Gennerat wrote:
>
> > Why ftp is faster than nfs?
>
> ftp is pure streaming performance and the tcp windows should be enough
> to half way saturate the irnet link. NFS is very "chatty" and needs
> a request and an answer via UDP which causes the latency of the
> irda link to be important which causes the link not to get saturated i
> guess.
I would not discount also packet losses. PPP has a tendancy to
drop packets under pressure.
> NFS is always a bad decision for low bandwith links.
I guess NFS over TCP (in NFSv3) should be better.
> Flo
Have fun...
Jean
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