On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I set up my 2 computers with ramfs and put some files in those dirs. > Now, I wanted to test my networking to see how fast it would work with > files sitting in RAM. This way I could tell the capabilities of my > network and its bandwidth capabilities. > > I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because > I was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs.
Wouldn't this be because hard drives are fast and the network is slow? Just a guess, but I know I'd be very unhappy if my hard drive had less bandwidth than my network connection. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
