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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2005 13:18:06 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tulio_Guimar=E3es_da_Silva?= <tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rmt as a bottleneck - Was: Weird behaviour of AIT-3 and (g)tar
Message-ID:  <20050531130852.U1452@epsplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <429B38C7.5040405@pgt.mpt.gov.br>
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> Observe that I bypassed rmt; that bumped the transfer rate to 10.976.153,96 
> Bytes/s, almost 30x faster. Should this really happen? (And yes, I read 
> rmt(8), but found nothing about this. :(  ).
> Thanks for your help;

ISTR that remote tars have a delay of 10 msec or so for each block because
the protocol needs to talk after each block (it doesn't stream) and there
is a TCP startup delay of this amount.

Bruce



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