Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:18:52 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: dim@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slip speeds on 2.0.5R Message-ID: <9506140518.AA28185@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506140141.SAA24974@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "D. Gerasimatos" at Jun 13, 95 06:41:49 pm
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> I recently upgraded from 1.1.5.1 to 2.0.5 and I noticed that my > network is not as fast as it was. Ftp and mosaic are the biggest > offenders, but it even seems noticable when running things like > telnet. I used to get 1.3-1.6 kilobytes/sec and now I am getting > transfer rates of something like 0.6-0.9 kilobytes/sec. Everything > seems configured correctly (correctly for 1.1.5.1 anyhow) and > my connection (via SLIP) works fine... It's just slower. Any ideas > about what may be causing this or how to troubleshoot this? I've > been using a USR 14.4 sportster, if it matters... There's a good paper on this out there by the X Kernel guys. They say the 4.4 networking code is significantly slower than the 4.3, and they tell why (and what to do about it). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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