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Re: Beating on the network..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H.J. Lu)
Sat Jun 1 15:53:51 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 12:38:07 -0700
To: Dave Wreski <dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> 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
>
Have you tried "ping -f linux" from sparc?
H.J.
