Hey all,
I compared transfer times for copying multiple files of various sizes from a RH Linux 8.0 box to a Samba share mounted first using smbfs and then mounted using sharity. Looks as if Sharity beats smbfs hands down. Here are initial results:
Transfer Time [secs]
Files Sharity smbfs %change
------ ------- ------- --------
file1 - - -
file2 2.008 3.748 46.42
file3 419.376 643.6 34.84
file4 424.633 656.165 35.29
# of files and file sizes:
file1: 100 files of size 0 bytes
file2: 10 files of size 613424 bytes
file3: 8 files of size 74544176 bytes
file4: 6 files of size 103761968 bytes
Testing Info
- Files were copied from RH Linux 8.0 box via sharity and via smbfs to //Broca/Public
- File transfers were done using the same files for both cases. Additional tests will be performed and posted to ensure that files were not cached for the sharity transfer.
- Percent change calculated as (smbfs-sharity)/smbfs*100
- Sharity v2.8 was compared with smbfs under kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0
- Preliminary additional tests were done and indicated that sharity was approximately 40% faster than smbfs for filesets similar to the ones listed above
--Jimmy
