Re: Possible TCP Problem with RH6.2 talking to Solaris2.6/2.7 (fwd)

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 12:14:27 EST


On 4 May 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> >>>>> "shane" == shane <shane@bratnet.net> writes:
>
> shane> Im trying the bigger size on linux now.
> >> ncftp /pub > bin ncftp /pub > mget linux* linux-2.3.99-pre5.tar.gz:
> >> 19.13 MB 1.76MB/s ncftp /pub >

Ah. Hrm. Let me guess - you moonlight for Mindcraft? :-)

Try a simple piece of code that, say, reads and writes big blocks of zeros
over a network socket.

> shane> Not Much Difference :(
>
> You're using WHAT as a benchmark?
>
> I am sorry but ftp is like the stupidiest thing to use for any sort of
> benchmarking. It doesn't do anything to pipeline data and many of the
> older deamons set ridiculously low socket buffer limits.

Not quite; he could have used IRC DCC's file transfer function :-)

> Try a real benchmark.

Quite.

James.

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