#Linux noob(ish) here, in need of a little #help.
Can anyone lend a hand?
I've attached a screenshot of a small wall of text that I couldn't fit into a post on here. :P https://computerfairi.es/media/NtKRT6MdDFeRl-B3UPk
@Morgan What is the CPU usage like, on your desktop, while copying?
Also, are you sure you can write fast enough to the desktop's disk to handle >10MB/s ?
@kellerfuchs according to htop, desktop is hardly breaking a sweat, server has one or two cores somewhere between 50% to 100%, with the remaining two idling. Have fiddled around with ethtool and it's a little bit faster now. Will reply to the original post with more info.
@Morgan to clarify one point, the server is on the same network?
@brennen Ah, yes! I should've mentioned. It is indeed on the same network.
@Morgan I'd guess the ethernet card requires proprietary drivers/drivers not shipped with Debian for the gigabit speed. start with a little sleuthing about the model.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=PCI-E+gigabit+debian
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn
https://h-node.org/hardware/catalogue/en
good luck!
@Morgan I've often seen this same kind of slow transfer, when copying lots of smaller files.
If you copy a very large file through the same process (several GBs in size), what is your throughput?
*UPDATE*
Running:
"sudo ethtool -s [connection name] speed 1000 duplex full" has now gotten me to similar, if not the same, transfer speed as when I used the Macbook.
Still not blisteringly fast... but it's better! I'm putting the remaining the lack of speed down to my crappy ISP-provided router.