Subject: Re: netatalk performance
From: Andrew Norman (andy@focus.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 31 1996 - 20:03:54 EST
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:31:44 -0600 (CST), Bradley Carlson
<carlson@sci.mus.mn.us> wrote:
>Tests today done on almost-idle network, PM6100/60 as client.
>
>Copying a large Netscape Cache folder (average file size 7.1 Kbytes):
> to Netatalk server: 4.6 Kbytes/second
> to Mac : 5.8 Kbytes/second
>
>Copying a single large tar file (18,680 Kbytes):
> to Netatalk server: 242.6 Kbytes/second
> to Mac : 233.5 Kbytes/second
>
It appears that netatalk's weakness (or is it AppleTalk's weakness) is
in opening and closing files then.
It would be interesting to see some figues comparing copying
Mac->Netatalk and Mac->Mac...
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