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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, tim@storm.digital-rain.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: poor ethernet performance? 
Message-ID:  <199907172320.QAA81716@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907171554280.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>

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:	Hmmm, how did you do the measurement and how big of a file does it
:need?
:
:	With a 122MByte file, it only does 2644Kbytes/sec.  This is
:between two Pentium II 450 machines with Intel Pro100+ NICs.
:
:
:Cheers,
:Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET           ________   __ ____ 

    2.6 MB/sec is what I would expect if you were running the test
    over an ssh link on a fast cpu - the encryption eats a lot of cpu.  But
    a normal rcp or ftp or data transfer can easily do 9-10 MBytes/sec.

test3:/root# /usr/bin/rsh apollo -n "dd if=/images/swap/swap.209.157.86.6 bs=16k" > /dev/null
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
134217728 bytes transferred in 13.558270 secs (9899326 bytes/sec)

test3:/root# /usr/bin/rsh apollo -n "dd if=/images/swap/swap.209.157.86.6 bs=16k" > /dev/null
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
134217728 bytes transferred in 13.530817 secs (9919410 bytes/sec)

   This is over 100BaseTX, *HALF* duplex running through a hub.  9.9 MBytes/sec.
   (using 1 MByte = 1000 * 1000).

   But if I use ssh instead, which I do only so I remember to turn off
   the shell service in my inetd.conf that I just turned on a moment ago, 
   I am limited by apollo's poor PPro-200 and get:

test3:/root# ssh apollo -n "dd if=/images/swap/swap.209.157.86.6 bs=16k" > /dev/null
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
134217728 bytes transferred in 96.545217 secs (1390206 bytes/sec)
test3:/root# 

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>



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