Tom=E1s =D3 h=C9ilidhe wrote:
> I copied a 696 MB file just there.
>
> Samba took 1 minute 21 seconds.
> FTP took 1 minute 14 seconds.
>
> Samba =3D 81 seconds per 5 846 335 488 bits =3D 1 second per 72 176 981 b=
its =

> =3D 72.2 Mbps
>
> FTP =3D 74 seconds per 5 846 335 488 bits =3D 1 second per 79 004 533 bit=
s =3D =

> 79 Mbps
>
>   =

If your really keen netcat tar pipe
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/tarpipe.html

for bonus points use UDP for the transport rather than TCP
It only really matters if your CPU bound

FTP and HTTP are probably pretty equivelent (same with a tar pipe)
With regards benchmarking beware of caching.

It looks like your only transfering at 8megabytes per second? get gig-E =

or one of those USB/firewire things people were talking about. That =

should bump you up to around 30mbytes/sec

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