[iyonix-support] Re: Slow down ShareFS

  • From: Peter van der Vos <peterthuis@xxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:58:10 +0200

Peter van der Vos wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been thinking about the problems with ShareFS. The best 
> would be to 'fix' the lowest level but, it is also possible to 
> build a level on top of it.
> 
> What I did (as a test) is build a small application. You can drop a
> single file on top of the main window (the source). This will open
> a savebox and let you select a destination. After this the
> application will read a small block of data from the source and
> send it to the destination. It will try to do this every 1 cSec.
> 
> This way it was possible to read a 31 MBytes file from an Iyonix to
> a RISC PC (with 100 Mbit interface) over a 100 MBit switch (pushing
> and pulling). Without the application I couldn't send a single byte
> of data.
> 
> The program !Slow (with sources) can be found on peter.drobe.co.uk
> 
> The size of the blocks transmitted can be changed but on my machine
> I cannot go any higher than 5Kbyte.

A new version of !Slow can now be found at peter.drobe.co.uk and this
version makes it possible to drop a directory on it's main window (and
transfer it slowly to the other machine).



Peter
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