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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:11:11 +1100 (EST)
From:      Luke <lukem@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
To:        =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Arne_W=F6rner?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I've ran out of ideas
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411191408440.11282@wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
In-Reply-To: <20041119022348.91477.qmail@web41208.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Arne Wörner wrote:
> Hmm... Since /dev/zero delivers on my box about 100-300MByte/sec 
> (100Mbyte/sec for 512byte block size), it looks like your network driver 
> hinders the throughputting proceedings (I assume, that your other 
> network devices can handle 90Mbit/sec; no ethernet collisions, no 
> concurrency, ...). Are you sure, that Linux performs better in the same 
> setting?

I think you must mean Mbps, not MBps. If it were bytes, you would be 
saturating 2.5 gigabit links with a single connection. Not to mention 
most PCI busses.

-- 
Luke

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