Re: Netatalk wire speed

Subject: Re: Netatalk wire speed
From: Gregg Healy (gregg@photoad.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 23:17:17 EST

My G4 can sustain over 5mb/sec. Limited I think by the HD in my Linux system
but I havent had the money to test it.

There must be some kind of cable or incompatibility problem? Even a slow
10/mb connection can do 10mb/min. 

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> From: "Chad Leigh, Objectwerks, Inc." <chad@objectwerks.com>
> Reply-To: chad@objectwerks.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:37:09 -0500
> To: Niall O Broin <niall@magicgoeshere.com>
> Cc: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: Re: Netatalk wire speed
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:53:23 -0500 (EST)
> 
> In normal usage I have never found MacOS to be a speed demon when copying
> large numbers of files.  Try copying that many files between two disks on
> the same machine.
> 
> Chad
> 
> --On Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:30 AM +0000 Niall O Broin
> <niall@magicgoeshere.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi again all,
>> I've been a long time user of netatlk but I haven't been on this
>> list for a while, as netatalk just works for me. But now I have an issue
>> that I'm sure I've seen discussed before but I can't find a reference
>> (probably not looking in the right place)
>> 
>> I need to copy about 13GB of files from a Linux box to a G3 Powerbook. The
>> Linux box is running 1.4b2+asun2.1.3 (it's stock SuSE 7) and the Powerbook
>> has mounted the filesystem using TCP (I hope - I entered the server IP
>> address rather than picking it by name from the Chooser so that should do
>> it, no ?). The server has a 3C509 card and is connected to the Powerbook
>> by a crossover cable, and the link lights indicate that 100 MB is active.
>> When I drag the relevant folder to the Powerbook (containing about 18000
>> files) it trundles away for a while, counting up to the number of files,
>> and then starts copying. The estimated varies as a few files are copied,
>> but it's always around 40 hours. Now cutting corners here and there this
>> equates to an approx. transfer rate of ~ 5MB / minute - this is just a
>> tad below the wire speed of a 100 MB network.
>> 
>> Now I know that afp won't really approach wirespeed, even over TCP rather
>> than Appletalk, but even so ~ 5MB / minute seems a bit slow. Anyone have
>> any suggestions ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kindest regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Niall  O Broin
>> 
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