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Re: off topic but possibly interesting to someone...

From: Spruell, Darren-Perot (Darren.Spruellchw.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 15:35:51 CST


From: owner-miscopenbsd.org
> cpu0: VIA Samuel 2 ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 533 MHz
> cpu0: FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX
> real mem = 158900224 (155176K)
> avail mem = 138125312 (134888K)
> using 1965 buffers containing 8048640 bytes (7860K) of memory
> rl0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11
> address
> x0:x0:xc:x9:x0:xf
>
> so it isn't the fastest box in the world but I'd expect it to cope
> better than it is.
> I have tried FTP and speed is constantly around 500k/sec,
> which I can
> live with but realise it should be much faster.
> FIrst thoughts is possible bottleneck when waiting for more
> entropy.
> If this is the case would adding memory make a huge difference?
> or is the CPU the bottleneck?

What raw transfer speeds do you see with an application such as iperf or
ttcp?

DS