Harry Putnam <reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > While benchmarking the other transfer methods you mentioned. > Particularly ssh and smb. I'll answer this part now. Here is some more info. I'm seeing horrible performance in every type tranfer I've tried. Must be some basic networking problem at fault. scp 'ing the same 169MB time scp -r News/agent/nntp/enews* exp:/ <I ^C ed it finally ... saw many `stalled' messages real 50m35.984s <== still had not finished (only 116MB had been transfered) user 0m1.260s sys 0m2.420s Trying an smb put of 25MB I get a timeout after only a few thousand bytes are transferred: smb: \> put enews.tar.gz putting file enews.tar.gz as \enews.tar.gz Error writing file: Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds closing remote file \enews.tar.gz smb: \> Segmentation fault
