On Wednesday, September 26 2001 11:27 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because > > I was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs. > > That's a good possibility. Your test could easily be corrupted on > either side - the send-from-disk could have been thrown off by the OS > caching the files in RAM and the send-from-RAM could be thrown off if > the ramfs had been swapped out. Linux uses both caching and virtual > memory pretty aggressively. > > OTOH, as a previous poster suggested, it seems more likely that your > hard disk is just faster than your network connection, in which case > I would expect to get the same results either way. > > > Question: Can I tweak scp or use something else to send files directly > > from RAM of one computer into another as fast as possible ? > > Why does it need to come out of RAM? Make it up on the fly - pipe > /dev/urandom or the output of `while /bin/true ; do echo 0 ; done` > across the network and you don't have to worry about the data being > cached.
What would the exact syntax of that command be ? I'm kinda a newbie to linux. Would you please let me which commands I need to type on both computers to the network performance. Thanks.
