Bad net IO performance probably due to misconfiguration 4245

Centurion

They should, but it could be, that on the old system I'm running out of DMA slots. I got a SB AWE 64 (ISA P'n'P) and a WinTV Go (bt8xx) mounted in this (it's my old workstation) as it is also used as a mythtv PVR and does this job well (no RT encodig though, of course) nuppel video does fine though and yet requires some throughput.

System files are on a SCSI HDD, however (due to prices - I admit it)home is on 2 IDE HDDs (both on different IDE channels of course) both which are concatenated in a LVM. But as I said PVR works just fine.

IIRC top reported a total of about 40% for the laptop (the ondemand cpufreq goventor clocked it at about 1.2GHz, max is 1.6GHz) on the destination machine I got about 60%. I've to double check this again though.

Ok, but at least I want a bit of compression. Much of the files I'm transferring are source code and such stuff, having a lot of whitespaces and other redundancies. Which is the most simple compression programm I could use to pipe the tar through so that I don't waste bandwidth for whitespaces?

Hmm, I wanted to avoid the use of a network FS or similair, as this is transfer is a one shot and I don't want to mess with the current configuration. But if this goes faster I'll use it.

I'll see

Wolfgang Draxinger --