Re: FTP benchmark proposal

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
28 Jun 1999 13:23:42 +0200


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes:

Richard> Matthew Wilcox writes:
>> Why do you suggest that? One gigabit network card is cheaper than
>> 4 hundred megabit cards and provides more bandwidth. One of the
>> reasons the Mindcraft benchmarketing exercise was so poor.

Richard> It makes sense to be able to easily rig up a test bench which
Richard> is being used to embarrass us. If we had had such a rig at
Richard> the time of the original M$^WMindcraft tests, we could have
Richard> fixed the problems by the second test. Flexibility in the
Richard> test rig is highly desirable.

We are talking about an ftp benchmark here to see if we can actually
keep up with the FreeBSD guys - last I checked nobody from M$ had
mentioned them in an ftp bench.

Jes

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