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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:27:52 +0100 (GMT-1)
From:      af@biomath.jussieu.fr
To:        grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow Etherlink
Message-ID:  <199609171327.OAA09810@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199609171042.MAA08085@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 17, 96 12:42:43 pm

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Greg Lehey wrote / a ecrit:
> 
> Gary Palmer writes:

[...]

> 
> Here are my results.  They weren't really designed to show anything on
> FreeBSD, and since I only have one FreeBSD box up and running at the
> moment, they're only an indication.  I ftp'd a 9 MB file (kernel with
> debugging symbols, FWIW) between 3 boxes: a P133 running FreeBSD
> 2.2-current, a P133 running BSD/OS 2.1, and the SparcStation 2 running
> SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.5.  Here the results:
> 
>       copy to ->	/dev/null	   /tmp/junk
> 
> FreeBSD - SunOS 4	1020 kb/s	   1020 kb/s
> FreeBSD - BSD/OS	1030 kb/s	    930 kb/s
> FreeBSD - Solaris 2.5	 462 kb/s	    462 kb/s
> 
[...]
> 
> 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?
> 

There are a  number  of  patches  available  adressing  NFS  and  more
generally IP performance problems on Solaris 2.5. Check Sunsolve.

_Alain_

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