[LBo] Linux network speed

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 24 September 2007 09:25:56 pm Jorge Diaz wrote:
> At home I have two computers networked through a rourter. One of them is a
> file server for streaming video and audio. When I copy files to the server,
> the average speed I am getting is 4.0MB/s, I feel this is slow for a
> 100mbit network.
>
> My question is, are these speeds normal when copying files? Or should I be
> expecting faster speeds?
>
> For extra info, I am using samba for file sharing. Thanks for your help!
>
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> Jorge Diaz
> 3D Animator
> www.jdart.net

That isn't too bad really. What I find to be the biggest bottle neck is the 
i/o performance of the harddrives... I'd check there first with hdparm.





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