From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 05:28:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA00548 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 05:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA00543 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 05:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id OAA15442 ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:38 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960905(mailhost)) at Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:55 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id OAA09810 ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:53 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199609171327.OAA09810@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:52 +0100 (GMT-1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609171042.MAA08085@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 17, 96 12:42:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]