On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS. Over my 10MBit coax > > network. From a Pentium 166 to a Pentium 133. I don't know any other > > network file serving protocol that can do this. > > Usually (untuned), you don't get much more on a 100MBit system. If you tune it > (set e.g. rsize/wsize to more reasonable values), you get a speedup to around > 3MB/s (at least that's what I experienced), while with FTP you get around > 8-9 MB/s. The servers were 4x Xeon with 2GB of RAM and Hardware RAID5, the > clients usually PIII/450.
Wouter said 800Kbyte/sec, which is at least 6.4Mbit/sec, and more when you consider network overheads. Quite respectable on 10base2, although better is possible with FTP. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
