On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > shane> Not Much Difference :(
> >
> > You're using WHAT as a benchmark?
> >
> > I am sorry but ftp is like the stupidiest thing to use for any sort of
>
> Its actually not too silly in this case. Trying a transfer into /dev/null
> may be a good idea for testing the 'is this disk or net' thats the bottleneck
> and doing a ttcp test to compare is wise.
>
> THe ncftp client should be quite sane
Why not just use a very simple client/server: read/write a big chunk of
zeros, and time it? No disk involvement, limited memory involvement, just
a measurement of the network transfer rate.
James.
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