From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 10 03:13:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA09818 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 03:13:42 -0800 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA09790 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 03:13:28 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HMVS8V6H7K0008NG@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:22:05 +0100 Received: by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (LAA25688); Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:27:27 +0100 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:27:26 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: enet throughput In-reply-to: <199502100401.GAA16155@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Feb 10, 95 06:01:16 am To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199502101027.LAA25688@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1424 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. ^^^ I believe linux figures are cheating because the linux fs cache. I wonder how linux looks when you transfer a really large file (>> physical memory). > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Sat Feb 4 16:57:32 1995 kuku@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES i386