Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

[Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@gmail.com>]

OK well I give up

Situation :-

Transfer 39Mb file from
gentoo -> XP share using Konqueror trans time <=25 seconds [XP share
mounted smb using Linneibourhood]

Transfer 39Mb file from
gentoo -> XP share using winXP copy trans time >=5 mins [gentoo smb
directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted]

So this is same file moving from same computer to same computer over
same network with NO changes except that "pushing" the file from linux
is massively quicker than "calling" the file from win.
I realise that there is probably a valid technical explanation for
this behaviour that is Beyond Our Level Of Current Knowledge [Sir]
however should it really be so hard to do this for an average user?

stu

ps. Solution is simple send letter bomb to M$ though it may take a
long while to get there unless I use a m$ proprietory letter carrier.

pps. Apologies if I am using this list for my rant, it was valid
untill this last post. It ends here


On 30/01/06, Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the
> speed  eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate
> however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would
> be necessary
> eg. win to lin 39Mb file > 6 minites
> win to win 39Mb file <20 seconds all on same hardware and network
>
> The network itself comprises 10/100 nic's and a linksys WAG54G
> gateway/router which again is 10/100.
> genstu ~ # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> tulip                  47264  0
> genstu ~ # lspci
> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)
>
> I have tried the MTU method
> genstu ~ # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF
>           inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:15600752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:18100911 errors:4892 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4892
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:2679344110 (2555.2 Mb)  TX bytes:764637378 (729.2 Mb)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000
> WinXP is now set to
> rwin 13140
> MTU 1500
>
> router
> MTU 1500
>
> #############
> Well ..
>
> After writing all of this I went back to playing with it all and I
> "think" I have somthing that could be considered to be acceptable.
> using figures above I have acheived a speed [konqueror dialog] of around
> 2.6Mb/s ~ 22.6Mbps on a 300Mb file
> which is a dramatic improvement really, though I have got to the point
> where I have chased the issue round and up my .....
>
> but that said transfers are not painful so I seem to have a reasonable
> resolution
> Thanks for reading.
>
> stu
>
> ps. The quicker I can cut my families ties to Mr Gates the better.
>
>
> On 30/01/06, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > How are you measuring this?  My first suspicion is that you are
> > measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from
> > different tools running on different OS's.
> >
> >
> > You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ??
> > Also what hardware and drivers?
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine].
> > > Now the basic problem is this :-
> > > Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb]
> > > Dual boot on XP    --  XP  speed approx 50Mbps
> > > Dual boot on linux    --  XP  speed <= 1Mbps
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand
> binary, those who don't"
>
> --Unknown
>


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