Subject: Re: Benchmarking 10-base-T to 100-base-TX networks... (fwd)
From: Donald Lee (donlee@icompute.com)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 13:29:10 EDT
It would be very interesting to see these numbers with MacOS 8.5+ used
as the OS. Apple made some dramatic improvements in the interrupt
handling in 8.5, and was fond of running demos of Appleshare that drove
a 100BaseT network at the full 100 MBit/second. I don't know if the
antique 7200/90 will give you the full effect, but the numbers would be
very interesting...
-dgl-
At 11:38 AM -0500 5/6/00, Spatch wrote:
>Don't know if anyone would care, but here is a benchmark of network
>thruput using 10Base-T and 100Base-TX networks comparing a lot of things
>(read the how to read this document). It does also compare different
>versions of Linux/netatalk and compares netatalks 1 file copy thruput
>weith Fetchs' and Anarchies' thruput (both FTP programs).
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>Well anyway, here you go...
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>How to read this document:
>You can use the benchmarks here to do a number of comparisons (in order
>of what my goals were):
>1) Network card, hub/switch comparison between 10 and 100base-T
> Compare Table 1 to Table 2
>2) Comparing Mac OS 8.1's thruput to 7.6.1's thruput
> Compare the internal times of any table for this.
>3) Comparing WIndows 95a to WIndows 95b's thruput.
> Use Table 3 between 95a to 95b.
>4) Compare faster server harddrive and updated server software to old.
> Compare Table 2 to Table 3.
>5) Compare Mac thruput to PC thruput. This is by the way, the least fair
> test since the Mac is so much slower than the PC, at least in
> clock speed, and because the server side apps are written by
> different groups and will likely themselves cause different times
> to come out. This is why I used the ftp method of copying one
> file in Table 3. Both the Mac and PC use the same server FTP software.
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>This is a list of thruput rates measured in seconds (see note at the end
>of this document to lean of how this was done) calculated into actual
>KB/s.
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>Table 1:
>With the old network cards and the old hub, copying from the server to a
>freshly booted client, (server using Conner 540MB CF540A ISA HD, 516MB
>w/64kB Cache, PIO Mode 3):
>OS-Platform # files Size Time (in seconds) Thruput
>Windows 95a 898 files 48.6 MB 99, 106, 105 = 103 483 KB/s
>Windows 95a 1 file 39.9 MB 63, 64, 63 = 63 648.5 KB/s
>Mac-OS 8.1 898 files 48.6 MB 233, 252, 277 = 254 196 KB/s
>Mac-OS 8.1 1 file 39.9 MB 90, 96, 96 = 94 434.6 KB/s
>Mac-OS 7.6.1 898 files 48.6 MB 209, 211, 215 = 212 234 KB/s
>Mac-OS 7.6.1 1 file 39.9 MB 86, 79, 85 = 83 492 KB/s
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> [snip the rest...]
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