From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 22 22:31:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04475 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 22:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.webweaver.net (xwin.webweaver.net [208.138.29.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04470 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 22:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.webweaver.net) Received: (from nicole@localhost) by xwin.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA16196; Fri, 22 May 1998 22:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35661B19.6DBC1172@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 22:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole To: Don Morrison Subject: Re: Gigabit FreeBSD Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA04471 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-May-98 Don Morrison wisely wrote: >> 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. Yes, however I don't think it did too much as I was using a DPT RAID card with (2) 4 gig Seagate Cheeta drives in Mirror and 32Megs of cache on a 266MHX Pent I I system with 256 Megs of memory as the requestor. The "server" was similiarly o utfitted. I now have it set up on an ABIT BX chipset MB with a 400 MHZ Pent II cpu. I was thinking of using "bing" for wire speed. But my biggest problem is how to load test it. Like pretending that the other end is and NFS mounted drive and y our end is a well visited web server or mail server. that sort of thing since th at would be most peoples application. Just measuring the time for a ping packet is kinda useless and even bing just does the same sort of thing I think. Does TTCP do any loading? anyone know where to find a copy I can compile? My next alternative, which I know would not please my boss, is to capture a bu ng of porno pics from usenet, and place them on a drive on system A. Then set up a web server on system B with system A NFS mounted. Then advertise a free porno website, and watch the traffic build ;> Of course, this is still limited by t he fact that the Gigabit hub is connected to the router via 100Bt so even that w ould not be "real" test :< Thanks Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- -- I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message