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

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sun Aug 30 20:20:14 EDT 2009


In article <1q-dnVwNZJjJfAfXnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d at earthlink.com>,
	"Michael D. Ober" <obermd. at .alum.mit.edu.nospam.> writes:
> "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
> news:7fre14F2mj5o9U4 at mid.individual.net...
>> In article <4a9780ef$0$196$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
>> Robin Schipper <"thespriteman <remove_this> writes:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when i try to put a big file (lets say 100 Mb) from a Linux system trugh
>>> FTP on a VMS system, the max speed is 1,5 MB/s
>>> when i try to put the same file from another VMS system (on the same
>>> network) to the VMS box the speed is about 10MB/s (it is a 100Mb network)
>>>
>>> does anyone know why the linux box doesn't speed up,
>>
>> Because it's linux.
>>
>>>                                                       and how to solve 
>>> it?
>>
>> Don't use linux.
>>
>> bill
>>
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>> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
>> billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>> University of Scranton   |
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>>
> 
> 
> Ahh - finally someone who responds with the same BS as when a Windows user 
> posted similar FTP problems recently.  FTP to one VMS box was slow but to 
> another VMS box it was fast.  The response then was don't use Windows - use 
> any other OS.  This sounds like there is a misconfiguration on the slow VMS 
> box.

Unless, of course, one has actually looked at Linux and knows what its
shortcomings are.  One of the worst being the TCP/IP implementation.

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>   



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