[olug] Mandrake vs. Suse bandwidth

[John DiMartino]

I copied and pasted the config files from a backup drive.  The drives 
were even formatted with the same FS.

John


Brandon Lederer wrote:

> Did u use the same conf file?  There are conf options to affect speed.  
> 
> On Saturday 29 May 2004 09:08 am, John DiMartino wrote:
> 
>>Hey guys,
>>
>>I just did a test of Mandrake 10 and Suse 9.0.  I used the same version
>>of Samba and both were run with out the GUI on the exact same box just
>>hours apart.  When connected to the machines using a windows machine -
>>the Mandrake 10 box pushes about 30 mbit/s out of a 100 mbit/s line
>>using large files.  The Suse box on the exact same box an hour and a
>>half later got 60 mbit/s.  I couldn't believe the difference so I
>>reinstalled Mandrake 10 again and got the same results.
>>
>>The only difference between the two distros is that Mandrake is using
>>the 2.6 kernel where Suse 9 is still using the 2.4 kernel.
>>
>>Just thought I would let you guys know in case you needed a network file
>>server and were running mandrake.
>>
>>Later,
>>John
>>
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