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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.252.192.28!news.stealth.net!solace!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Extremely slow FTP transfers (in one direction) Date: 7 Feb 1997 14:12:19 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5dfd83$gd3@nike.volvo.se> References: <01bc148c$6df9ddc0$1358dbcd@crimola.altacom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5903 I would suggest running tcpdump and examine the results (man tcpdump for details) peter h Carlos Rimola (crimola@altacom.net) wrote: : I recently installed BSDI 2.1 on a local machine and everything is working : fine except for very slow ftp transfers in the direction of this machine : (either "gets" from it or "puts" to it). : So for example (the client is the one issuing the get/put): : Action Server Client Result : ftp get bsdi 2.1 bsdi 2.0 1.2e+02 Kb/sec : ftp put bsdi 2.1 bsdi 2.0 1.6 Kb/sec !!! : ftp get bsdi 2.0 bsdi 2.1 1.8 Kb/sec !!! : ftp put bsdi 2.0 bsdi 2.1 1.3e+02 Kb/sec : The 2.1 machine is a very plain Pentium 166 w/ AHA 1542, 32MB, CD ROM, 4 : Gig IBM H/D and SMC WD8013 configured at I/O=280, IRQ=10, Base=0xd000. : Nothing else, except for serial and parallel ports. : The 2.0 machine is a Toshiba Satellite (410CDT) with a Xircom parallel port : ethernet adapter. : BTW, I have Windows NT installed on a second partition on the 2.1 machine : disk and it gets acceptable (high) throughput in both directions when doing : FTPs. : I have also done "sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.do_rfc1323=0" and have disabled : DNS resolution but to no avail.. : Any pointers/help will be greatly appreciated! : Carlos Rimola -- -- <peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!) Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27