[3010] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Beating on the network..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gustav Bjoerkman)
Mon May 27 23:20:06 1996
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:33:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gustav Bjoerkman <gnork@beyond.malmo.lth.se>
To: Dave Wreski <dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
cc: linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960524192909.11981A-100000@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
On Fri, 24 May 1996, Dave Wreski wrote:
> 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.
>
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>
> 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?
>
Try running it with equal hardware. The network interface in the sparc is
much better than 3c509 and most other ISA cards. Many people thinks just
because they have the CPU power they can add what crappy hardware they
like and still expect preformance. Get a good PCI networkcard and do
"ping -s 1 -l x" against the sparc and you will see it doing hickups.
/G
