[Info-vax] Slow FTP transfer Linux -> VMS

Howard S Shubs howard at shubs.net
Fri Aug 28 23:45:49 EDT 2009


In article <005140c2$0$9541$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> > does anyone know why the linux box doesn't speed up, and how to solve it?
> 
> The only FTP performance parameter on VMS is the system-wide logical name:
> 
> "TCPIP$FTP_WNDSIZ" = "4096"
> 
> The doc says 4096 is good. I have no idea what the measure is (probably
> 4k of data ?). Not sure if it can be increased much beyond that. This
> affects VMS on the receiving end.
> 
> I know that on the dsl line, the VMS box can't get anywhere near the
> maximum throughput (which the Mac next to it can).

Maximum is 65535.  Try that.

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