Subject: Re:[netatalk-admins] slow connection
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 18 1998 - 16:38:05 EDT
In reply to Oliver Grass's message of the 18/04/98 at 14:36 +0200,
> I know that the harddisk in the linux-machine is a slow one, but before
> buying a fast SCSI-Drive i want to know if this is a common problem, that
> the MAC is slower than the PC.
Well, I don't know how fast your PC is, but I have a 9500/200 talking to a
netatalk 1.4b2+asun 18 server on a P200, 64 MB, Linux RH 5.0. I get about 1
Mbyte/sec doing Finder copies. Having a SCSI disk certainly makes a difference;
before I had the SCSI disk, I was only gettng about 700 kbytes/sec.
As for Word, I opened a 1.2 MB Word doc on the local disk and it took about 27
secs vs 30 if the doc was on the netatalk server. This is with Word 98 - sorry
I've already deleted Word 6 (and good riddance).
> Second, when opening a winword-file from the MAC on the linux-machine, it
> takes nearly one minute to open this file...
Did you try opening the same doc from a local HD on the Mac? If you have
graphics or Win fonts in your doc, it can take significantly more time to open
the doc the very first time even if the doc was on your local disk. Eg that
same 1.2 M doc took about 45+ secs to open the first time; thereafter, it was
much faster.
Sak Wathanasin
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