Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:23:10 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "Cory Kempf" <ckempf@enigami.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pathetic FTP performance Message-ID: <013701bd5446$6237a620$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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yes this is the problem, it has been discussed before. -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: dg@root.com <dg@root.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, March 20, 1998 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Pathetic FTP performance >At 14:13 -0500 98.03.20, David Greenman wrote: >>>I am getting really pathetic FTP performance across my LAN. From any >>>machine to any other machine, I am seeing several hundred k / sec via FTP. >>>E.g. from my Mac to my SGI, I see between 300k/s - 1M/s, depending on file >>>size. > >> Look at the input stats on the receiving machine - are you seeing input >>errors? It sounds like you might have a bad cable segment. > >Yes, on looking, it was generating a lot of errors. Taking this idea, I >swapped cables with the other machine on my desktop -- a Mac. > >Now, an interesting thing: this same 'bad' cable was being used without >problem from a Mac running variously MacOS and MkLinux. > >When I swapped cables, the difference was like night and day on the FBSD box. > >OK, so I tested the 'bad' cable on my Mac... 0% packet loss, FTP speeds of >700 k/s (which is what I normally expect). > >I presume from this that the intel hardware is not as uh, something. >Sensative? forgiving? whatever. > >Wierd. > >+C > > >-- >Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: ><http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/chipmerchant.html>; > >Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development >ckempf@enigami.com <http://www.enigami.com/~ckempf/>; > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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