Debugging data throughput.
After frustratingly watching the slow progress of moving some large .VHD files around. i needed to go back to basics and prove how good (or bad) the data transfer was.
The maths :
Taking my 1Gbit network card (1024Mbit/sec)
Divide by 8 for MB/sec (megaByte/sec) 1024 / 8 = 128MB/Sec.
128 MB/sec is therefore the theoretical maximum throughput of a Gigabit network card.
In the OS however, the copy speeds I am seeing are 60MB/sec.
This is down to >
Disks : The capabilities of the I/O subsystems being read from and written to.
Network : Other Network Traffic e.g. Broadcast traffic
Network : The overhead caused by packet size (i.e. breaking data into small packets - look at using Jumbo packets to improve)
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