Subject: Re: Speed problems on Linux
From: David Hamm (dhamm@itserve.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 1997 - 03:13:14 EDT
On 18-Jun-97 David Hartmann wrote:
>At 12:54 AM -0700 6/18/97, Niklas Wikström wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am running netatalk on a Linux kernel version 2.0.18. I have tried both
>>the 1.3.3 as well as the 1.4 beta version of netatalk but I am having the
>>same problems.
>>
>>Problem: Copying files between the connected Macs and the Linux box is
>>extremely slow, about 5-10 k/sec wich I believe is way below expected.
>>Excluding the speed problem everything appears to work as it should. Has
>>anyone been experiencing similar problems.
>
>I have exactly the same problem. Here are some details about my setup:
>
>- running netatlk 1.3.3 on one linux 2.0.29 box and 1.4b2 on another.
>Copying files is equally slow to either.
>
>- of the three macs on our net, only one of them has slow access to
>netatalk and the other two work fine. All three are powermacs running
>System 7.6.1 and Open Transport 1.1.2 over built-in ethernet.
Take a look at your inits. I have a number of Macs here at work and usualy the
problem lies within the inits.
>- copying many very small files goes quickly, while even a single large
>file (say > 64K) gets bogged down terribly.
>
>- using Fetch 3.0.3 to transfer my test files via FTP, I get about 600,000
>bytes/sec, or about 60 times faster than netatalk.
FTP is a _much_ more efficient way to trasnfer data. I even heard that FTP is
faster than nfs.
>- Installing and removing SpeedDoubler 2.0.3 has no effect on the problem.
>
>- The problem occurs with either AppleShare workstation version 3.6.4 or
>3.6.5.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>David
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