Subject: Re: Speeding up netatalk
From: Lutz Michaelsen (lutz.michaelsen@easi.de)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 12:23:56 EDT
John Grieg wrote:
>
> I have a Pentium 266 Linux Box with 4 SQSI (Adaptec 2940) disks (fast and
> wide) 20 Mb, 9Mb, 2x4Mb
> and 128 Mb RAM and a 3c905b 100 network card.
>
> I was pretty satisfied with the transfer times (we had NT earlier) at
> almost 2 Mb a sec.
>
> Then I read about someone transfering 500 Mb in a minute.
>
Whow ... 8,3MB/sec. How can they do this?
I think the transfer rate of your hardisks are limiting the thruput.
I'm running a K6-2/300 with rather the same Ultra-SCSI-Controller with 9GB disks
(1-2 years old) and the maximum thruput I can get with ftp/netatalk is around
3-4MB/sec. (with big files). If you have a lot of small files it will slow down.
Do you have a switched network?
How is your Linux box connected to your clients?
Are you using "afpoverip" ?
To accelerate the thruput you can buy faster harddisks (>7200rpm) or configure a
soft raid 0 with your old harddisks.
Best Regards,
Lutz Michaelsen
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