Subject: Re: Q840 ethernet performance?
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/04/1997 17:11:27
> 
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> > (see http://www.bga.com/~khym/netbsd/ttcp.html for numbers with the rte
> > instead of jra _ASM_LABEL(rei))... The quick summary is 869.69KB/s
> > receiving and 860.80KB/s sending.
> 
> On a 68k mac via ethernet???  Ouch!  MkLinux only seems to get ~300K/sec
> on a 7600/120... and that's _not_ just disk overhead, because I tried
> uploading to /dev/null and it still only sent at 300k/sec.  :-) 

The real test would be to ftp a file from a ram disk to /dev/null. That
way you could eliminate disk access speed. Or, FTP twice (to /dev/null)
assuming the file will now be in the ftp server's buffer cache.

Though the high speed's nice. :-)

Take care,

Bill