FC2: vsftpd poor multiple file transfer performance

[Rainer Traut]

Jay Lee wrote:

>>I try to download two iso images at the same time from FC2 to a windows
>>box.
>>When dling only one image at the same time, speed is ok, around 10MB/s.
>>But when doing two transfers parallel, I get 2MB/s.
>>
>>Both PCs can handle the speed easyly, one is an athlon XP2000, one
>>XP1400, 1GB Ram each.
>>
>>My assumption (I see harddisk light on FC2 always on):
>>Network/cabling is alright, because single dl is ok.
>>Maybe the FC2 pc seems to readahead too much so it cannot keep up with
>>the upload rate?
>>Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I've found that the default options result in extremely poor performance
> when uploading/downloading multiple files quickly.  Try editing
> /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf and changing these lines:
> 
> xferlog_enable=NO
> 
> then do a "/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart".  After this change, uploading lots
> of small files worked a *lot* faster.

Hi, thank you,
but this did not help.
Think it is because I am not downloading many small files but two big files.

Gruss
Rainer