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I've had similar problems quite a bit. After a while I just installed |
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pure-ftpd on Gentoo and used smart ftp on Windows. It still took a long |
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time but seemed to go much faster than that smb stuff. |
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> OK well I give up |
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> Situation :- |
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> Transfer 39Mb file from |
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> gentoo -> XP share using Konqueror trans time <=25 seconds [XP share |
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> mounted smb using Linneibourhood] |
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> Transfer 39Mb file from |
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> gentoo -> XP share using winXP copy trans time >=5 mins [gentoo smb |
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> directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] |
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> So this is same file moving from same computer to same computer over |
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> same network with NO changes except that "pushing" the file from linux |
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> is massively quicker than "calling" the file from win. |
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> I realise that there is probably a valid technical explanation for |
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> this behaviour that is Beyond Our Level Of Current Knowledge [Sir] |
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> however should it really be so hard to do this for an average user? |
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> stu |
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> |
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> ps. Solution is simple send letter bomb to M$ though it may take a |
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> long while to get there unless I use a m$ proprietory letter carrier. |
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> pps. Apologies if I am using this list for my rant, it was valid |
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> untill this last post. It ends here |
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> On 30/01/06, Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the |
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>> speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate |
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>> however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would |
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>> be necessary |
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>> eg. win to lin 39Mb file > 6 minites |
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>> win to win 39Mb file <20 seconds all on same hardware and network |
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>> The network itself comprises 10/100 nic's and a linksys WAG54G |
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>> gateway/router which again is 10/100. |
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>> genstu ~ # lsmod |
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>> Module Size Used by |
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>> tulip 47264 0 |
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>> genstu ~ # lspci |
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>> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25) |
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>> |
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>> I have tried the MTU method |
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>> genstu ~ # ifconfig |
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>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF |
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>> inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 |
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>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 |
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>> RX packets:15600752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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>> TX packets:18100911 errors:4892 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4892 |
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>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 |
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>> RX bytes:2679344110 (2555.2 Mb) TX bytes:764637378 (729.2 Mb) |
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>> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000 |
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>> WinXP is now set to |
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>> rwin 13140 |
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>> MTU 1500 |
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>> |
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>> router |
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>> MTU 1500 |
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>> ############# |
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>> Well .. |
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>> |
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>> After writing all of this I went back to playing with it all and I |
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>> "think" I have somthing that could be considered to be acceptable. |
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>> using figures above I have acheived a speed [konqueror dialog] of around |
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>> 2.6Mb/s ~ 22.6Mbps on a 300Mb file |
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>> which is a dramatic improvement really, though I have got to the point |
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>> where I have chased the issue round and up my ..... |
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>> but that said transfers are not painful so I seem to have a reasonable |
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>> resolution |
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>> Thanks for reading. |
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>> stu |
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>> ps. The quicker I can cut my families ties to Mr Gates the better. |
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>> On 30/01/06, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>>> How are you measuring this? My first suspicion is that you are |
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>>> measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from |
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>>> different tools running on different OS's. |
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>>> You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ?? |
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>>> Also what hardware and drivers? |
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>>> |
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>>> BillK |
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>>> |
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>>> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: |
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>>>> Hi |
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>>>> I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine]. |
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>>>> Now the basic problem is this :- |
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>>>> Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] |
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>>>> Dual boot on XP -- XP speed approx 50Mbps |
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>>>> Dual boot on linux -- XP speed <= 1Mbps |
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>> "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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>> binary, those who don't" |
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>> --Unknown |
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> "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand |
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> binary, those who don't" |
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> --Unknown |
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