100Mbps Ethernet Speed/Efficiency

[Neall]

> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:18, Neall wrote:

> > I took the hard drives out of the picture.  I set up RAM disks on two
> > different systems, and connected them via ethernet using NFS to cross
> > mount them.

At a later time, Laurence Orchard <laurence at orchards.org.uk> wrote:

> have you considered putting the data file in a ram disk to overcome the
> disk transfer overhead? assuming you have enough physical memory so you
> don't hit swapping!

This is exactly what I did.  Didn't I say that? :)  The systems have 1
GByte RAM each, and the RAM disks were set to 100 Mbytes each.  The data
file was copied from the hard drive to the local RAM disk, then the timing
began.  RAM disk to RAM disk, via ethernet.  Neall