Re: funny TCP?
Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Tue, 09 Jun 1998 18:04:40 -0700
: I found, that ftp transfer from Win95 to Linux got very slow.
: About 1Mbyte will go OK, but then speed goes down.
:
: What appears to be happening here is the wuftpd server is not eating
: the data quick enough from the socket for some reason. When it gets
: this slow, you may want to strace wuftpd. I bet that you will see
: that perhaps wuftpd is blocking for long periods of time writing out
: the data to disk, or something like this.
There is an easy way to prove/disprove this theory:
$ ftp some_windows_box
ftp> get bigfile /dev/null
Unless the Linux box is extremely memory starved, I doubt that it is the
ftp writes slowing things down.
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