Slowness and sparse files

[Andrew Gideon]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:58:21 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:

> I've tried switching to rsh, but that doesn't help a great deal. I get
> close to maximum gigabit speeds in simple data copy tests however.

It may be clear to others, but I'm missing what you mean by this.  I 
gather that rsh yielded poor results.  What did you do for 
"simple data copy tests" that did well?

	- Andrew