Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-10-03 Thread igor
On Wednesday, September 26 2001 11:27 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > That's a good possibility.

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-28 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, blowfish is a nice speed improvement. Any idea, why > it' not the default? I would assume it has something to do with 3des being older. In ssh man-pages it is said, that blowfish _appear_ very secure. I think BSD-folks are just being con

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > > Stop! Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during > > the second try? > > It was, but it was there the first time also, I deliberately ran both > these commands a couple of times and only reported the last attempt. > (Should have mentioned that, thoug

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-27 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Samuli Suonpaa wrote: >> $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero >> >> real 1m28.652s >> user 0m0.050s >> sys 0m0.450s >> $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero >> >> real 0m27.329s >> user 0m0.070s >> sys

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero > > real 1m28.652s > user 0m0.050s > sys 0m0.450s > $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero > > real 0m27.329s > user 0m0.070s > sys 0m0.390s > > Nice difference, right? Stop! Co

Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-26 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I > experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the > server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With > plain old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half d

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread Mike Dresser
> I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I > experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the > server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With plain > old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half duplex?) link. try the -c blowfish option.

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I > experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the > server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. Well, yes... scp is an encrypted p

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
David Roundy wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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 s

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. That's a good possibility. Your test could easily be corrupted on either side - the send-from-disk

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-09-26 Thread David Roundy
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 it