On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: >> My experiments have shown that copying a large file via HTTP is >> significantly faster than copying the same file via 9P. > > were you using fcp? > > i'm curious as to where the differences could come from, since the > usual suspects that can make the difference (establishing a > connection, sequential reads, directory walks/stats) wont come into > play for one file. >
fcp is still a 9p conversation. http get is a tcp stream. Fcp is better than cp but not that much better. If you're yanking one file, a TCP stream is pretty ideal. Dropping 9p on top of it, even when the 9p involves multiple TREADs in flight, is just making things slower. ron
