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Date:      Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:30:49 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@speakeasy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Typical Network Performance
Message-ID:  <8627B125-F3BB-42B2-98CF-600E21A93A2D@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C55E4B5.7000201@speakeasy.net>
References:  <4C55E4B5.7000201@speakeasy.net>

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On Aug 1, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> I have a 100 mbps (12,207 KiB/s) home LAN in full-duplex.  A 1 MiB file transfers at 146.7 KiB/s via wput.  The same file transfers at 91.34 KiB/s via samba.  That's less than 1% of available transfer rate.  Seems like my transfers are slow.  I do better than that when installing via the internet.
> 
> Does the FTP performance compared to available bandwidth seem right?  Is the relative performance of samba to FTP right?  I read a couple quick links on the net which said, "It's complicated."

Gigabit ethernet from a 2.8 GHz P4 to or from MacPro I am only limited by disk data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other end of the disk. 

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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