[98672] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Is Samba typically slower sending files than receiving?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benny D. Helms)
Tue Nov 10 02:03:29 1998
From: "Benny D. Helms" <benny@mysticsheets.com>
To: "'cs@zip.com.au'" <cs@zip.com.au>
Cc: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:58:33 -0800
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I've seen this with HTML in Outlook, but you're saying it also hoses up the
works when you set it to RTF? In what way? I'm not doubting you, just
feeling miserable for doing this all the time so that the few users on my
immediate LAN can get pretty colors and bold fonts from me once every blue
moon. What effect does RTF have on a non-Outlook viewer?
Thanks,
Benny
-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:cs@zip.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 4:54 PM
To: Greg Cox
Subject: Re: Is Samba typically slower sending files than receiving?
On 4 Nov 1998, in message
<001f01be0777$f3e079f0$0200005a@greg.meltonmachine.com>
"Greg Cox" <greg.cox@meltonmachine.com> wrote:
| Is Samba typically slower sending files than receiving?
Haven't timed it, but bear in mind that writing always has more
potential for speed than reading because to supply your data for a
read the OS must go all the way to the disc to get it (unless you're
lucky). With a write the OS can throw it all into memory, tell you it's
done, and let it trickle out to the disc at disc speeds later.
Now to a different topic. Your mailer is misconfigured. Observe:
| <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 =
| http-equiv=3DContent-Type>
| <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR>
| </HEAD>
| <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
| <DIV>
| <DIV>
| <DIV><FONT face=3D"" size=3D2>Is Samba typically slower sending files =
| than=20
| receiving?<BR><BR>I have seen this both at home and at =
| work.<BR>Sometimes the=20
| throughput is 1/2 when I copy files from Samba<BR>than when I copy to =
| Samba=20
| (From WinNT and Win95/98)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
| <DIV><FONT face=3D"" size=3D2>The Players=20
[... and so on...]
The above stuff is sent by MS Outlook instead of plain text.
_Please_ go to your Outlook config and TURN OFF the "send as HTML" or
"send as rich text" settings; these settings are usually a waste of
time (plain text is very expressive as it is) and a source of pain
for everyone not using MS Outlook.
This isn't your fault - Outlook is shipped with this misconfiguration
and, even better, it's completely invisible to the authors, who don't
realise the trouble their mailer is causing others.
In any mixed forum like a newsgroup or mailing list, it is essential than
messages be plain text only so all can read them.
Everyone will appreciate it if you make this change and ask any friends
using Outlook also to make it.
Thanks!
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Microsoft Mail: as far from RFC-822 as you can get and still pretend to
care.
- Abby Franquemont-Guillory <abbyfg@tezcat.com>
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