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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: Re: Slow FTP puts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EB0uAI.HE7@nonexistent.com> References: <338F0B62.62271A2F@magibox.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865041493 20772 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 01:20:20 GMT Lines: 45 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41906 Ken wrote: > > Here's the essence of the problem: FTP puts to the FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 > server are > extremely slow, slow enough to be considered failed. For example, a 6k > file > taking about 20 minutes (yes, minutes) to upload (ASCII mode). > Sometimes, if > I wait long enough, the file is transferred, indicating that > file/directory > permissions are okay. FTP gets from the same client to the same server > over the same network are fine. Perhaps it is a network problem, networks aren't always asymmetric AFAIK so try to measure other transfer times between the two computers, like perhaps an http transfer or something. > Background: client is a Windows 95 machine, path is ethernet 10baseT > with > virtually no traffic. Then again, THIS could be the problem :-) it could also be a FreeBSD problem, but the odds of that are near zip :-) it could also be a messy ftp daemon, try wu-ftpd 2.4 or whatever the latest version is. > On a 9206 byte file I just uploaded, here's what I got. It took over 30 > minutes from the "put" was started until "Transfer complete" was > displayed. > The transfer time reported at that point by the ftp client was > 9346 bytes in 101.23 seconds. > Doing a status on the ftp client immediately following the transfer > shows: > Type: ascii; Verbose: On; Bell: Off; Prompting: On; Globbing: On > > Unfortunately, I don't have sufficient knowledge of FreeBSD or FTP to > attempt to diagnose the problems except superficially. > > Suggestions as to the problem or guidance in troubleshooting it are > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Ken > welk@mem.net