From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 06:13:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA13986 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA13961 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:13:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA29753; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:12:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:12:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: more Mac vs BSD (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk now what planet were these tests performed on? ron Ron Minnich |"I would point them out but ... rminnich@sarnoff.com | I have no hands." -- Coconut Monkey (609)-734-3120 | (see CM at www.pcgamer.com/coconut.html) ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:10:16 GMT To: rminnich@sarnoff.com Subject: more Mac vs BSD * In Apple's testing on a 10 Mbps Ethernet network, Open Transport could sustain throughput of 9.6 Mbps. In contrast BSD could only sustain 7 Mbps (and the venerable MacTCP could only do 2.3 Mbps). That may not sound like a huge difference, but what about a 100 Mbps Ethernet network? Open Transport has been shown to sustain 40 Mbps on those networks - how well will BSD do?