From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 18 08:09:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03547 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csla.csl.sri.com (csla.csl.sri.com [192.12.33.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03525 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from impulse.csl.sri.com (impulse.csl.sri.com [130.107.15.11]) by csla.csl.sri.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01780 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from impulse.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by impulse.csl.sri.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08619 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609181506.IAA08619@impulse.csl.sri.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link (FreeBSD v. Linux) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:39:16 PDT." <199609171939.MAA08743@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:06:47 -0700 From: Fred Gilham Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Bresler writes: we routinely get 2.5MB/s (thats bytes, not bits) thru a 100BaseT ethernet connection from wcarchive.cdrom.com to a core router on the internet. On an unloaded 100TX network I did the following: # time rcp -K hyacinth:/usr/x.tar . 0.2u 5.8s 0:15.84 37.9% 313+415k 5+886io 0pf+0w # ls -la total 55962 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 18 07:58 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 Sep 18 07:26 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 57262080 Sep 18 07:58 x.tar # This is about 3.8 MB/sec. Given that the disk on hyacinth only does about 4.4 MB/sec. I think this is pretty good. -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com