From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Sep 17 08:40:51 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA18110
          for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:40:51 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from gage.com (auth.gage.com [205.217.2.4])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18105
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from octopus by gage.com (NX5.67d/NX4.2M)
	id AA02041; Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:40:17 -0500
Received: from squid by octopus.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
	id AA13781; Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:36:33 -0500
Received: from insomnia by squid.gage.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
	id AA07852; Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:41:32 -0500
Message-Id: <9609171541.AA07852@squid.gage.com>
Received: by insomnia.gage.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X)
	id AA01368; Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:41:47 -0500
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2)
In-Reply-To: <199609171327.OAA09810@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr>
X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3)
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.146.2)
From: Ben Black <black@gage.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:41:46 -0500
To: af@biomath.jussieu.fr
Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink
Cc: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <199609171327.OAA09810@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr>
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> The real surprise is Solaris 2.5.  The SS2 only has 16 MB of memory,
> but all it was doing was receiving the file, so you'd think it could
> handle things better than that.  Does anybody have any ideas?
>

16MB is not nearly enough for a solaris 2.5 machine.  it's a severely  
bloated bit of software.  things might get radically better if you went to  
32MB on it.

also, are your benchmarks in bits or bytes per second?


b3n