From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 28 8:33:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE86F14FEC for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA14694; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:33:54 -0400 From: Bill Paul Message-Id: <199907281533.LAA14694@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: sysinstall network performance To: brdean@unx.sas.com (Brian Dean) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:33:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199907281524.LAA61875@dean.pc.sas.com> from "Brian Dean" at Jul 28, 99 11:24:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1329 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Brian Dean had to walk into mine and say: > Hi, > > During recent installs using the 7/26 snap, I noticed that the > transfer rate for the "ports" distribution was about twice as fast as > SNAPs from the beginning of the month. Previously I was seeing a > download rate of around 13 KB/s, while now I'm seeing around 28 KB/s > (while these rates may sound horrrendous, it's typical of what we get > when installing ports - other distributions generally hit upwards of > about 800 KB/s). > > I was wondering what to attribute this better performance to. Could > this be due to the new network driver / newbus integration? Well, since you didn't tell us what kind of network card(s) you have, that's impossible to say. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message