[syslinux] memdisk and iso

[upen]

When we perform our kickstart installs via NFS , speeds are good on the
servers I am dealing with right now. It looks like, the current
configuration for this menu item is only via TFTP which is limiting the
speed to 400-500 Bytes/s. Isn't TFTP speed limited only to 512Bytes/second?


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> On 05/15/2013 10:33 AM, upen wrote:
> >
> > While I was booting the server, I ran dstat on PXE server and saw the
> > outgoing network speed was 400-500Bytes. So looks like there is
> limitation
> > on speed via TFTP.
> >
>
> That being said, unless you have high latency between server and node
> TFTP should be able to perform better than this.  Unfortunately some PXE
> stacks are really poor; some don't even enable speeds over 10 Mbps...
>
>         -hpa
>
>
>


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