Re: poor network performance in 2.1.10[58](factor of 8 to 15 worse)

peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com
21 Jul 1998 15:42:11 GMT


Hi there doogie,

Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 marcel@ch.twi.tudelft.nl wrote:
>
>> Adam Heath wrote (adam.heath@usa.net)
>> > Using ncftp, proftpd, on localhost
>> >
>> > xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb(17336702)
>> >
>> > 2.0.33 857.75 kB/s
>> > 2.0.35 882.93 kB/s
>> > 2.1.105 109.74 kB/s
>> > 2.1.108 56.88 kB/s
>>
>> I repeated the test here with kernel 2.1.105 and got much better results
>> (820Kb/s on the first run, 1300Kb/s on subsequent runs).
>>
>> Is this machine tight on memory ? (I used a 64Mb machine for these results).
>
> P166mmx, 96m ram(32m for slram). 80m disk swap. Debian 2.0(glibc).

Uhhmmm.... am I missing something here?

Client: ncftp 2.4.3
Server: FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10)
Up-to-date Debian 2.0 (all glibc2 based)
Linux 2.1.110

[...]
localhost:.../dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11> dir xboo*
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 17336702 Jul 20 13:30
xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
localhost:.../dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11> get xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
Receiving file: xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
100% 0 ==========================================> 17336702 bytes. ETA: 0:00
xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb: 17336702 bytes received in 9.29 seconds, 1.78 MB/s.
localhost:.../dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11>
[1]+ Stopped ncftp -L -u localhost
polux:/home# rm xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
polux:/home# fg
ncftp -L -u localhost

localhost:.../dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11> get xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
Receiving file: xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb
100% 0 ==========================================> 17336702 bytes. ETA: 0:00
xbooks_3.3.2.2-3.deb: 17336702 bytes received in 8.44 seconds, 1.96 MB/s.
localhost:.../dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11> quit

1.78 MB/s and 1.96 MB/s are not bad at all, I think.

This box is running 2.1.110 and is an old Pentium 66 MHz (with the
FDIV bug) and 32 MBytes RAM.

Regards,

peloy.-

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