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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 17:13:14 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Brandon Huey <bh@transbay.net>
Cc:        Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gigabit FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199805230013.RAA05964@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 17:14:05 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522170900.28022A-100000@synergy.transbay.net> 

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>i thought ttcp is a memory-to-memory throughput benchmark?
>doesn't that make it somewhat less appropriate for real-world simulations?

   It depends on what you want to measure. If you want to isolate and
measure just the networking code performance, then ttcp is the perfect
choice. If you want to test filesystem performance, than FTP is better.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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