On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:29 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
nev young wrote: [...]
The same file was used in each case from the file server to the laptop, the only difference was that in doze it went via samba rather than by NFS. Oh doG! Don't tell me it's cos samba is faster than NFS.
It depends how it's configured, but I'd expect it to be the other way around. NFS is older (they've had longer to optimise it) and I've seen it used on bigger sites. You could try transferring with smbclient to remove that difference.
For large files I'd expect both FTP and HTTP to be faster than either of NFS or Samba because, unlike network file systems, the sending end knows the whole file is being transferred and so can make maximum use of the TCP window size.
Regards, Steve.