Pablo wrote:

I've been told gigabit over copper won't deliver more than 33%, to improve performance you have to switch to fiber. Please note that's what I heard, I've not tested or seen this myself, but I trust the source ;)

I get up to around 0.66 Gbit/s over NFS, including tcp/ip & NFS overhead, so network throughput is certainly not a bottleneck. ;-) Robbert -- Robbert Eggermont Information & Communication Theory R.Eggermont@EWI.TUDelft.nl Electr.Eng., Mathematics & Comp.Science +31 (15) 2783234 Delft University of Technology