Subject: Those ftp numbers (fwd)
To: MacBSD General <macbsd-general@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brian R. Gaeke <brg@dgate.org>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 08/01/1995 01:39:16
An example of why NetBSD-current's networking beats the pants off MacTCP:
(Note: Not claiming this is a rigorous test or anything. Purely for your
amazement. Posted to macbsd-general as per request of Allen.)
31 tar.gz files were retrieved from pc.dgate.org (a 20MB 486DX/2 PC running
Linux 1.3.12 with a 3Com EtherLink III network adapter, Adaptec 1542 SCSI
card, and Fujitsu SCSI disk) to IIci.dgate.org (a 8MB Macintosh IIci with
a Farallon EtherMac II-TP card and a Fujitsu SCSI disk) over an otherwise
quiet Brian's House Ethernet, first from MacOS 7.5 running MacTCP 2.0.2
and Fetch 2.1.2, then in NetBSD-current running the standard ftp client.
Bytes/Sec
Size Filename MacOS NetBSD
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101455 net-tools-1.2.0.tgz 50727 254026
3404805 nethack-3.1.3.tgz 53200 279393
1442751 nvi.ALPHA.1.49.tgz 53435 295157
373881 pdksh.tar.gz 53411 272485
1130765 perl5.001.tgz 51398 284674
545844 pgp262s.tgz 54584 292166
463368 pgp26ui-src.tgz 57921 238210
322010 ppp-2.1.2b.tgz 53668 254404
167627 procmail-3.11pre3.tar.gz 55875 220131
60451 qpopper2.1.4-r1.tgz 60451 227582
121844 rtftohtml.tgz 60922 224875
78420 rzsz-9204.tar.gz 78420 222076
305402 screen-3.6.1.tgz 61080 240045
977803 sendmail8612.tgz 44445 284447
670831 shadow-3.3.1+.tar.gz 55902 249146
415370 sndkit.tgz 51921 265680
224009 sup-linux.tar.gz 56002 240728
409343 svgalib126.tar.gz 51167 263862
404292 tcpdump303.tar.gz 50536 254929
525590 tcsh-6.06.tar.gz 58398 264773
225785 xinetd.2.1.4.tgz 75261 282648
232904 xview.tgz 46580 212139
565937 zsh-2.6-beta9.tar.gz 56593 280631
119398 bomb.tgz 59699 246859
932228 cap60.pl194+linux.tgz 58264 269434
133298 dip337l-uri.tar.gz 66649 245105
271454 e2fsprogs-0.5b.tgz 54290 264060
7442415 emacs-19.28.tgz 53160 300314
63121 libdes.tar.gz 63121 228826
184186 lilo-0.15.tgz 61395 259264
107663 modules128.tgz 107663 218547
Bytes/Sec
Results MacOS NetBSD
_____________________
Minimum 44445 212139
Maximum 107663 300314
Mean 58585 256019
Median 55902 259264
'tworks. No hardware overruns, no 'length does not match next packet ptr'
messages, no device timeouts. NetBSD gets 250Kbytes/s. versus MacOS's
57Kbytes/s. Of course, MacOS bombed the first time I started it up to do
this test, but that's to be expected, right? :-)
-BRG
--
Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate Company Internet E-Mail: <brg@dgate.org>
DGate.ORG system adminstrator / PGP 2.6.2 public key available via finger
NetBSD/mac68k: Free UN*X for your Mac II. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/