Subject: Re: Network performance
To: Tom Tarka <tommy@mp3.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/31/2001 18:45:07
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tom Tarka wrote:
> 2) use the iostat program and "top" to help determine if the quadra is IO-bound or CPU-bound...
> it might be IO-bound if your disks are slow, you've got a lot of other accesses going on on
> the same disk, or if you've got too much stuff going through the bus.  CPU-bound would
> just be a netatalk issue...

It's likely a disk issue... NetBSD's SCSI driver on those machines is
pretty slow :( The AV onboard ethernet itself is nice and fast, since it
uses DMA--I've gotten almost 900Kbytes/second with ttcp. (Numbers at
<http://www.cactus.org/~huang/netbsd/ttcp.html>)