2009/3/13 Jean-Francois <jfsimon1...@gmail.com>: > BTW this thread helped me a lot (I was the originator) and I agree that > NFS works a lot very well. Over Gigabyte network it's looking like > really a local disk behaviour. > > I have still troubles copying videos because the Linux desktop > constantly loads the litle snapshot of the vid file it is transferring , > this icon of the file that shown one of the picture of the film, and as > it does constantly update this imate while transferring it really > interferes and the flow is reduced to somewhat few m/s instead of approx > 60 m/s when transferring normally.
This sounds like a problem with your Linux GUI configuration and Linux allowing that preview generation task somehow compete with its transfer task for access to the file (not sure why; if the preview generation tried to temporarily lock the file it would sort of explain things, but why would that job try to do that?). Or maybe the Linux preview generation task is so eager to catch up with and gets so confused by the constantly changing file that it generates such an amount of load on the Linux system that this negatively impacts the transfer task. In any case, there isn't really anything OpenBSD does to cause this, nor probably anything your OpenBSD box could do to fix this. But in case you're using Nautilus/GNOME on your Linux box, you may want to look at Edit -- Preferences -- Preview in Nautilus, where you can tell it to show thumbnails for local files only, or only for files below a certain size, or not show thumbnails at all. regards, --ropers
