From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 12:41:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D49C14D01 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02499; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:39:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Odd network performance via fxp0 In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A6032@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Yes the machines (more than one) are win machines. But no they do not have > crappy disk performance. NOT that crappy, both have new drives that perform > very well. I'd be pretty pissed if my new 7200 rpm drive was only moving > about 400k/sec. Windows's network stack, frankly, sucks. Never expect good network performance from a Microsoft box. Plus, MS has never won awards for outstanding I/O performance in general. If you want to see *real* performance, do a test at 100mbit FDX between 2 FreeBSD machines with PCI ethernet cards. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message