On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:53:57 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 01:00, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
>
> > Hmm... the difference is comparatively significant as waiting for half
> > an hour to transfer 700MB on a 100Mbps line is just way too slow. But
> > placing it inside the publication directory of an HTTP server then
> > downloading it from there incurs no side effects as dramatic as the
> > nfs/ssh method. Weird.
>
> Is this ISO image containing highly compressible data? The reason why
> HTTP seems faster might be because of mod_gzip.
The problem goes with any file, ranging from a few MB's to gigabytes
of MBs being transferred. It's really weird...
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