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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!not-for-mail From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc,comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi,comp.security.firewalls Subject: Re: Slow Transfer w/ spaces in file. Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:32:54 +0200 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 51 Message-ID: <5j9vvm$4b5@cyklop.volvo.se> References: <861401616.29265@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.dcom.lans.misc:7996 comp.dcom.sys.cisco:55972 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3011 comp.security.firewalls:7353 Sounds to me like a data sensitive link error och one channel (out to Internet). Although it is uncommon, there is reported cases. Try to look on the counters on your router during transfer. Also have your provider check on their end. My bet is that you see some crc counter tick up during this process. God Luck! Peter h In article <861401616.29265@dejanews.com>, <raghuram@hedge.furmanselz.com> wrote: >Heres a stumper: > > Theres a file sitting on a BSD 2.1 machine running Apache web server. >Theres a cisco router pointing out to the internet. The file is a big >text file with information and with lots of spaces inside it. (ascii 32) > > This file can be transferred using ftp or an http link. It transfers >fast! (95-500k/sec) > > When someone tries to get this file of the internet, it transfers REAL >slow... (2-4k/sec) > > If we do a mass search/replace and replace the spaces with periods or >some other character, the file transfers over the internet fast! > > Curiously enough, we can do ftp PUT's to this file from the internet and >its fast again. Only GET's go slow. Binary or Text mode have both been >tried with the same results. > > Is it an OS problem? A router problem? We've renamed the extension of >the file, used lots of different samples.. done everything we can think >of. ANY file with lots of blank space in it is slowed down drastically. > > Has anyone heard of this / seen this before?? Is it a router >compression thing? The transfers from that machine when you're local go >fine. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > - Raghuram Ponnapalli > Furman Selz, LLC. > >-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet