On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> James Sharp writes:
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > > You may want to experiment a bit with the number of descriptors
> > > allocated for packet reception: bump _HME_NDESC to a higher multiple
> > > of 16.
> > 
> > I twiddled with it for a while and found that a setting of 64 for
> > _HME_NDESC seems to be the Right Thing.
> > 
> > From ftp:
> > 
> > 4690400 bytes received in 2.7 seconds (1.7e+03 Kbytes/s)
> 
> which ftp client are you using here? the ftp client in netbsd hasn't
> reported xfer rates like that for a long time. also, the netbsd-current
> ftp client has been tweaked a bit to attempt to get the best xfer
> rates possible (including allowing you to set the socket buffer sizes)
> 

ftp that comes with MIT Kerberos...both client & server.  ttcp reported
roughly the same numbers.