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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= <kernel@ragnark.vestdata.no>
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Subject: Re: Nasty ext2fs bug!
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:48:56AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> >  Problem: The pget -n feature of lftp is very nice if you want to maximize
> >           your download bandwidth, however, if getting a large file, such
> >           as the one I am getting, once the file is successfully
> >           retrived, transferring it to another HDD or FTPing it to another
> >           computer is very slow (800KB-1600KB/s).
> 
> I find it hard to believe that this would actually make a huge
> difference, except in the case where the source is throttling bandwidth
> on a per-connection basis.  Either your network is saturated by the
> transfer, or some point in between is saturated.  I could be wrong, of
> course, and it would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind the
> speedup.

If some link is saturated with 1000 connections, you will get 1% of the
bandwith instead of 0.1% if you use 10 concurrent connections. right?



-- 
Ragnar Kj?rstad
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