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Beating on the network..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Mon May 27 19:28:48 1996
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Wreski <dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
To: linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
Hi all. I am running pre2.0.7, and I thought I would play with it, just
to see what I could do.
I have a Pentium 120, with a 3c509, along with a sparcstation 2 connected
via 10bT hub. Since I don't know all that much about what to expect, and
how much the network should be able to take, I started with ping.
With the CDE running on the sparc, and X running on my linux box, (64megs
ram) I did 'ping -f' as root to the sparc. I also have a 28.8 ppp
connection, with only my typing as traffic.
I was shocked to see that the load on my sparc was ~.20, and the load on
my linux box was almost 3.0. Its also not a steady progression either. It
looks as if I left this running, it would most certainly crash my linux
box. Can someone explain why there is such a disparity between load's on
the two machines? Does my sparc2 really have better networking (oh, this
is solaris 2.5) and networking interface than linux 1.99.7?
Thanks for any input,
Dave Wreski
dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu
