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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:38:52 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com>, Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp transfers crawling... 
Message-ID:  <199710122338.AAA10331@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:47:36 PDT." <199710121647.JAA03859@implode.root.com> 

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> >> Since about Wednesday's make world of 2.2-STABLE, I can't make *any* ftp
> >> download do better that 1K on my 28.8k modem .  That's trying a lot of
> >> different sites.  I'm using IJPPP.  All was well before, no config
> >> changes have been made.
> >> 
> >> Maybe Netcom... Anybody else notice anything?
> >
> >I am having similar problems.  Few reproducable ones:

This has prompted me to do some speed testing.... the results look 
good - probably because I'm comparing against a rather outdated 
pppd-2.2.0 (from FreeBSD 2.2.2).  All tests are transfering a 1Mb 
file that's all zeros accross a null-modem ppp link:

        3.0 current     rel 2.2.2       PRED1   VJ      Time
Oct 12  ppp             ppp             N       Y       1:33
        ppp             ppp             N       N       1:35
        ppp             ppp             Y       Y       0:12
        ppp             pppd-2.2.0      N       Y       3:17    
        pppd-2.3.1      pppd-2.2.0      N       N       3:17    
        pppd-2.3.1      ppp             N       Y       1:33    

Of course the PRED1 case is useless given the file contents (but it's 
nice to see that it does something).  The VJ results are disappointing,
although given that I have a transmission unit of 1500 and the slot 
id isn't compressed talking ppp<->ppp (I'll enable this in -current 
soon, but it's too dangerous for 2.2.2 at this point), VJ is reducing 
40+1460 bytes down to about 4+1460 - a 2.5% gain is close to the 
above (actual) 2.1% gain.  Pppd-2.2.0 just doesn't seem to compare with 
anything.

The second line is the most interesting (comparing rather exactly to 
the last line).  Serial line throughput (excluding all the ACK and 
setup crud) is 88301 bps.  With all the crud, this 1Mb turns into 
1092851 bytes sent and 29000 bytes received.  1092851 bytes over 95 
seconds = 92030 bps (assuming the UART *is* actually syncronous).

I may try to make these tests a bit more informing - I need a test 
bed (read: set of sanity checks) so that I don't screw things up 
again like I just did.
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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