[Technical] FTP performance

[anthony kost]

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jim Maunder <techo at ruyton.vic.edu.au>wrote:

> Hello All -
>
> I have a small technical query about FTP/network throughput/Windows disk
> performance. I am fairly ignorant about such things, having just enough
> knowledge to be a danger to the organisation.
>
> Nearly every term break I re-image the lab computers, and in the past have
> used DOS boot disks to either connect to a Windows share (using Windows for
> Workgroups extensions for DOS) on a Win98 machine, or to a network drive
> (using a DOS ODI driver) and DriveImage2000. More recently I have been using
> Novell StoreManager on a WinPE DVD to connect to a FTP servers. Last year
> the FTP server was our intranet box (running some kind of linux). A typical
> re-image would take 12 mins for 1 PC, 30 minutes for 2 PCs and an hour for 6
> PCs.
>
> This year I have been using a WinXP box (plenty big, lots of RAM, single
> SATA disk, gigabyte LAN card) with FileZilla FTP server running, and this is
> where my query comes from. A typical re-image now takes about 7 minutes (the
> same tame it would take to copy the image files from the server) for a
> single PC, 45 minutes for 2 PCs and 2 hours for 6 PCs. What causes this
> dramatic reduction in speed, and is there a workaround that does not involve
> Ghost or Zenworks?
>
> (This time I do 2 PCs at a time - one via the network and FTP, the other
> using a 16Gb USK stick, and this keeps me fully occupied as both take about
> 6-7 minutes to do)
>
> Sorry about the longwinded waffle, but I got to the question eventually.
>
> rgds
> Jim
>
>
>
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