Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:57:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: black@gage.com (Ben Black) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink Message-ID: <199609171557.RAA09223@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <9609171541.AA07852@squid.gage.com> from "Ben Black" at Sep 17, 96 10:41:46 am
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Ben Black writes: > >> 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? >> > > 16MB is not nearly enough for a solaris 2.5 machine. To be fair, that should depend on what you're doing. But yes, it's not normally enough. Now, on the other hand, I'm compiling gcc on it, normally an operation which needs a lot of memory, and it's not doing too badly (except that it rebooted on me without saying why). > it's a severely bloated bit of software. things might get radically > better if you went to 32MB on it. That would assume that it's paging severely with 16 MB. I don't think that's the case, and it would be really bad if it were. > also, are your benchmarks in bits or bytes per second? Bytes, not bits. It couldn't be that bad :-) The high values (1030 kB/s) represent a little over 80% of the theoretical bandwidth. Greg
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