scp copy has different speed on different boxs

[lsaller]

Hi *,

I have 2 gentoo and 1 WinXp (I know, I know) boxes on a switch. Copy with scp from gentoo box1 to win goes with 2MB/s but from the other gentoo box to win it is only 500kB/s.
The gentoo setup on both maschines is indentical. And funny is: the box which gives me 2MB is a K6/500MHz and the 500KB is a XP/1.8GHz.
The NIC's, sshd_config, running processes are all identical.

I don't know where to search.
Can somebody give me a hint??

Thanks!

Ludwig

[bigfunkymo]

do you use any firewalling or traffic shaping on either gentoo box?
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[Jake]

What do you get between the two Gentoo machines? How about to 127.0.0.1 on the slow one?

[lsaller]

I have tried 127.0.0.1 and the name of the host and it's 192.168.... IP number all with very high speed: 9.9MB/s.
Between the 2 gentoo boxes I got 2.4MB/s.
I have changed the cables from the maschines against each other and replaced with new ones -> same result.

The boxes are on a swich and there is no firewalling between the hosts.

??I dont understand this??

Thanks for your help.

[bigfunkymo]

Do both of your computers have their hdparm settings tuned?
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[lsaller]

Hm, I don't think that the hdparms belong to this issue because the slow scp box is very fast excpet while coping with scp.
Here is the output of hdparm -i <dev where the file is>

Model=SAMSUNG SV1203N, FwRev=TQ100-23, SerialNo=0727J1FWA17844
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=217102411
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):

And here the fast scp box:

Model=IC35L120AVVA07-0, FwRev=VA6OA52A, SerialNo=VNC602A6L16EAA
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=52
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1863kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=241254720
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:

Did you see something bad?

Thanks

[christsong84]

hmm...is one box doing a lot more than the other? e.g. processes taking up more resources?
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[dtmf]

are you using the same file system on both computers??
also it looks like one of the drives it set to a lower dma then the other.

[lsaller]

The load is not very high
this is from the fast scp box:
load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

and the slow:
load average: 0.15, 0.06, 0.02

on the slow box (keep in mind this is the 1.8GHz box) runs X but not much processes and on both runs apache and samba only for intranet. Both servers sleep the most time.

On the slow box I use reiserfs and the fast ext3. The lower dma is because the old box dosn't support more.
This is what makes me silly the dam old K6 is 3 times faster while copy over ssh.

Thanks!