Re: NetBSD/sparc64 and GbE performance

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On May 7, 2011, at 11:12 , Matthias Scheler wrote:
>       Hello,
> 
> what performance do people get with GbE cards in NetBSD/sparc64 systems?
> I get about 200Mb/s with the wm(4) card in my ULTRA60. If I remember
> correctly Solaris 10 achieved twice the throughput with a cas(4) card.
> But I seriously doubt that the cas(4) hardware is faster or even as
> fast as a wm(4) card.

  I have an sk/skc in my E420R, I'd be happy to report what I get.  But, using 
scp is not a good test because the slow CPUs are worse on encryption than the 
network is on transfer.

  What tool(s) were/are you using to measure your 200/MB/sec?

           - Chris