From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 8:21:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54DA37B402 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:21:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAUGLfp14698; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:21:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:21:41 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp transfer rates on my LAN Message-ID: <20001130102141.A22943@HiWAAY.net> References: <200011301354.eAUDsK013263@mail.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011301354.eAUDsK013263@mail.hiwaay.net>; from 01031149@3web.net on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:43:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:43:54AM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > On 29 Nov 00 at 17:52, David Kelly wrote: > >My gut feel is the Win95 machine is not going to run any faster. Then > >again you don't say what CPU's are used. > > 486-66 20M = win95 486-66 32M = FBSD3.3R [...] > >Replacing one of the P-III's with an old AMD 5x86/133, 32MB, FreeBSD > >3.5, and a 10/100 de0 ethernet, maxed out at 1.5MB/sec. > > Well, I should then be grateful for the transfer rate that I am getting. > What a hell of drop you got. As suggested, I'm going to try setting the > media (in one NIC anyway) and both to full-duplex if my Compaq NIC can do > it. Thanks.... I wasn't clear as to whether or not yrou 3com cards are 10baseT or 10/100. Guess I could have looked up the model numbers. Anyhow, my 5x86/133 is a most accurately described as a 486DX4/133 as its CPU is a 486, the bus runs 33 MHz, internally it goes 4x. A 486-33 could saturate the wire if its not blocked by HD I/O. It can't send the data down the wire faster than it can read/write from the HD. My old WD 240MB IDE drives ran 600k Bytes/sec with 100% CPU utilization. This is back in the days when many of us cut our teeth and learned to love SCSI. Today the performance differences are not so clear cut. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message