From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 20:09:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA29291 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:09:31 -0800 Received: from dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.28.40]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29285 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:09:23 -0800 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA16155; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 06:01:17 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199502100401.GAA16155@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: enet throughput To: rminnich@mini.sarnoff.com (Ron Minnich) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 06:01:16 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Ron Minnich" at Feb 9, 95 08:24:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 986 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think the Ethernet performance also depend on the type of card, I use mostly SMC Elite Ultra cards and I get ~1088kbytes/second on 66MHz 486s. That is using FreeBSD 1.1.5 or 2.X and the ttcp test program. I have a notebook, (33 MHz 486, FBSD 2.0) that use a 3C509 and the performance is bad. John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za > > freebsd enet performance doesn't look too good down here. > from freebsd -> irix i see 700 kbytes/sec. This is using 3c509s, isa bus, > p90 systems, the 12/22/94 snap. > > from freebsd -> freebsd i see 200 kbytes/second. Linux on similar boxes, > same cards, sees 980 according to a friend. > > Any hints to me (i don't read -questions) would be welcome. > (besides "convert to linux" i mean) > > > Ron Minnich |We can think of C++ as the Full Employment Act > rminnich@earth.sarnoff.com |for Programmers. After all, with each compiler > (609)-734-3120 |version change, you have to rewrite all your code. > > >