Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:52 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink Message-ID: <199609171327.OAA09810@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <199609171042.MAA08085@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 17, 96 12:42:43 pm
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Greg Lehey wrote / a ecrit:
>
> Gary Palmer writes:
[...]
>
> Here are my results. They weren't really designed to show anything on
> FreeBSD, and since I only have one FreeBSD box up and running at the
> moment, they're only an indication. I ftp'd a 9 MB file (kernel with
> debugging symbols, FWIW) between 3 boxes: a P133 running FreeBSD
> 2.2-current, a P133 running BSD/OS 2.1, and the SparcStation 2 running
> SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.5. Here the results:
>
> copy to -> /dev/null /tmp/junk
>
> FreeBSD - SunOS 4 1020 kb/s 1020 kb/s
> FreeBSD - BSD/OS 1030 kb/s 930 kb/s
> FreeBSD - Solaris 2.5 462 kb/s 462 kb/s
>
[...]
>
> The real surprise is Solaris 2.5. The SS2 only has 16 MB of memory,
> but all it was doing was receiving the file, so you'd think it could
> handle things better than that. Does anybody have any ideas?
>
There are a number of patches available adressing NFS and more
generally IP performance problems on Solaris 2.5. Check Sunsolve.
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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