Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:28:17 +0300 (EET DST) From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: tx Rates Message-ID: <199610222028.XAA01272@silver.sms.fi> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961022101226.12303A-100000@calvino> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961022101226.12303A-100000@calvino>
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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
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