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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:40:57 -0700
From: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu>
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>   I have been playing with a Packet Engines Gigabit Ethernet hub and ethernet ca
> rds that have drivers for FreeBSD. (third party) I want to write up an article/p
> aper on my testing highlighting FreeBSD. So far I have tested transfering files
> via mv and ftping, (so far I have reached 15.6MB/s via ncftp) and I have planned
>  some NFS tests. However I would like to know what tests would best show off Fr
> eeBSD and the Gigbit ethernet.
> 
>  I think that this writeup could help a great deal in showing FreeBSD as a Real
> World, we can play with the Big Toys OS. However I would like to know what tests
>  would best show off FreeBSD and the Gigbit ethernet.

Well, I don't have any experience with Gigabit ethernet, but it sounds
like the stated xfer rate reached above is limited by your ide hard
drive's xfer rate.  Maybe you should try performing your tests on a MFS
(ramdisk) file system.

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