Hello folks. I just set up a 400Mhz PowerMac G4 (AGP) as a file server for a customer.
I have used the exellent software called SharePoints to set up general shares for 4 users on the network.
The client machines are all 4 Dual 1Ghz G4 and are running OS X Panther 10.3.2 and sometimes 9.2.2.
My problems is that write speed to the server is extremly slow. We are talking roughly 300kB/S here. Read speeds are pretty ok, about 7-8MB/s.
Read and write speeds are measured using both Photoshop and Finder copying.
In my attempts to try solving this issue I have tried the following:
Installed an optional Garallon 100Mb Ethernet card, exactly the same result.
Connecting my iBook 600Mhz directly to both the internal and the PCI ethernet card using a regular cat 5 pacth cable, same result.
I have tried using ftp from command line on both the iBook (connected directly via cable, no switch) and the clients machines that are connected to the "servers" built in ethernet via a 100Mb switch. Then I get 4MB/s read from server, and 8MB write to server.
I have also tried regular copies directly on the server, which works at over 10MB/s as appropriate.
Any ideas? It seems that the afp server part of the server is extremely slow when writing to disc.
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