From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 13:28:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29233 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.sms.fi (root@silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA29214 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA01272; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:28:17 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:28:17 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199610222028.XAA01272@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: hmmm Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: tx Rates In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hmmm@alaska.net writes: > > TX rates are very bogus! any comments? > > for example, an FTP operation just reported: > > 15056 bytes transferred in 0.02 seconds (848.67 Kbytes/s) > > firstly - ain't nothing happening in 0.02 seconds! > second - 848K/second ? i DON'T think so !!! > > makes me wonder about other BSD utility reporting ... 20 milliseconds is a reasonable transaction time over a LAN. However, the resolution of the timing heavily depends on the lenght of measured interval. Also when sending, they are off by the size of a single TCP window. Pete