Hi Daniel,

I was just trying to see which is the best option available, so I had to
conduct this test.

Solaris version being used is,
SunOS test 5.10 Generic_127111-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
I am using curl version 7.19.0 (we only have this version available
currently).

One more thing I observed was that for relatively shorter web-pages and
files, libCurl performed extremly well (for big files does the wait for IO
cause a lot of delay, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION handler is calle dmultiple
times?).

As many attahcments may be downloaded from a web-page, I thought libCurl
persistent connection can help. Is there anything else I can do for better
performance? Kindly let me know.

Warm Regards,
Sandeep.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Sandeep R M wrote:
>
> the timing details for downloading
>> http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.19.6.tar.gz, 50 times on Solaris
>> machine, timing details have been obtained using *time* command,
>>
>
> Please don't torture my web server with tests like this. It's also not very
> scientific to use a remote file for testing speeds properly.
>
> What Solaris version is this? Have you tried any other curl version and
> seen if this slowness is constant or has changed? (I assume you used 7.19.6
> to test this.)
>
> The actual download phase of data is *identical* for HTTP and FTP within
> libcurl (after the headers and after the RETR command basically) so I'm
> having a hard time explaining this difference.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>
Received on 2009-09-03