Performance shock

MrKnisely mrknisely at mrknisely.is-a-geek.org
Sun Aug 7 15:32:27 UTC 2005


Peter Lieverdink wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 02:35 -0400, pszilard wrote:
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>>I am just experimenting with Ubuntu and noticed that using the local
>>100Mbps ethernet connection I could transer a 2GB file to Samba almost
>>wtice as fast as to an XP Pro file server. What is even more
>>interesting is that Ubuntu is running on my test PC which is a 700MHz
>>Pentium with 256MB ram, whereas the XP file server was on a 2.4GHz P4
>>with 512MB DDRAM.
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>>The peak transfer speed was only slightly higher, but Samba was able to
>>"take" the entire file in one stream, whereas XP was pausing between
>>chunks.
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>>Anyone else try similar?
>>-paul
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>No sorry, Netcraft have conclusively shown that you must be imagining
>things. Please check http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts/ for more
>details. If there is still a discrepancy after that, you should order a
>Windows 2003 Server license (and a new Quad Xeon machine) to fix the
>problem ;-)
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>Cheers, with a grin,
>- Peter.
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MY GOD, that was a good laugh.  Thanks for the humor.

Mike K.




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