Kristian Rask wrote in a message to All:
KR> Workstation:
KR> Tyan P166/48 MB AHA-2940 / 5400 rpm scsi disks
KR> Win95 w. Native client (+ MS NDS-Auth & PowerToy auto login)
KR> and similar card (DEC-500)
KR> (Half Dublex crossed cable, 4.3 K max rcv pkts)
KR> In Winfile (the 3.x file mgr) a copy of any file, or
KR> directory structure that is less than 15 Megs, is carried
KR> out at
KR> approx 10 MegaBytes pr. sec. (yes.. a directory w. 17 files
KR> of a combined size of 15 Megs takes 1.5 sec.)
KR> If i try to copy say.. a 32 MB file.. the net result is
KR> between 0.9 and 1.3 MB pr. sec.
KR> Thats approx 1/10 of the speed :(((
KR> Whats the story ??????
Insufficient memory in the server is what's going on.
Netware gets performance by loading everything into memory.
And buffering disk writes turn memory. Because of low memory, the 32 meg file 
transfer is disk to disk; the 16 meg file transfer actually goes to memory 
first, where it completes "faster". The files in memory then are flushed to 
disk to complete the transfer.
You can see the flush effect. Look at number of dirty cache buffers when the 
16 meg file transfers are completed. You'll see them gradually reduce as the 
data is actually written to disk.
Frank  PE, CNE, CNA-4, MCSE, MCP+Internet, VCS
 framsey@goodyear.com, frank.ramsey@fallsbbs.com
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Frank  PE, CNE, CNA-4, MCSE, MCP+Internet, VCS
 framsey@goodyear.com, frank.ramsey@fallsbbs.com
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