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From: Net Llama! <net...@li...> - 2003-07-11 21:17:34
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On 07/11/03 14:01, Rohan Parkes wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 06:33, Net Llama! wrote: >>You sure that's not an IO throughput issue of your hardware? > > > It could be, but I wouldn't know what to look for. It's a 100 Mbps > ethernet LAN, using Samba (the ISO images are on an XP machine). If Didn't someone else already comment that doing this over Samba would result in terrible performance? I think they stated that it must be on a local disk. > Samba is a problem, I could try NFS. The setup works under XP (although > strangely, it seems a lot more demanding on the PC to read DVDs from a > network than from a local drive - I thought it would be the other way > around). Except that a networked filesystem has all kinds of other stuff going on in between. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman net...@li... Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 2:15pm up 5 days, 23:14, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.16, 0.08 |