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Re: Question on performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tero Pelander)
Sun Aug 11 18:54:26 1996
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:11:47 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Tero Pelander <tpeland@roope.top.tkukoulu.fi>
To: Emanuele Buttice <buttice@elecomm.net>
cc: netmail <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <320A4962.1936F191@elecomm.net>
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Emanuele Buttice wrote:
> I have never been able to get more than 500KB transfer rate between any
> of my PC's, Is this normal ?
> I have about 5 pc's running Linux 1.2.13 mostly P5's with >= 16meg Ram
> and ISA 3ccom 3c509TP cards. The network traffic is very light and my
> tests are done when no one is working. I have done transfers using ftp
> and tcpspray but the results are simular.
Remember that disk activity can slow transfers. I can get 990 Kbytes/sec
with ftp transfer 10MB file while putting it into /dev/null in the
trancieving end. That is about the highest it goes even in an empty net.
