Subject: Re: Don and Ron's suggestions...
From: Donald Lee (donlee_nat@icompute.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 01:15:58 EDT
>I did some re-benchmarking tonight with the same exact configurations, but
>with suggestions from Don and Ron.
>
>Take note in table 3 for 7.6.1n, 8.6, and 8.6n for the newest additions.
>
>Here are my results:
> [etc...]
Some of the numbers for the macs look awfully low.
I just tried my setup. My server is a PowerCenter 132 running
netatalk 2.1.3. Network interface is 10BaseT.
Client is 7200/120 w/ Asante 10/100 card. MacOS 8.1. VM is on.
Disk is on internal SCSI. It's a slow Quantum drive, I think.
(I don't remember...)
Switch is an Asante 10/100 8 port and an Asante 8+2 (8 10baseT and 2 100BaseT)
these are daisy chained, and the client is on the 8 port, and the server is
on the 8+2 on one of the half-duplex 10base-T ports. Not exactly optimal.
In any case, with this setup, I can get a 24 Mbyte file copied to and
from the server with Appleshare (IP connection) in 25 to 26 seconds.
That's easily 900 KB/s in both directions.
I think it's likely that you've got some issue on your network. I can't
guess what it might be, but I know the 7200/90 had some serious ethernet
issues. (That should not be a problem wth the Asante card used though...)
The first time I ran, I was running the 7200 on DHCP with an internal
NAT gateway as a "hop" on my internal network between the server and
the client (even though they're on the same physical segment.
I have to be frugal with IPs) That gave me 900 KB/s server ->client, and
about 300Kb/s client ->server with ASIP. I then gave the 7200 its own
IP (no NAT box in the way) and the ethernet pegged nicely at over 900
both ways. The primary reason the NAT hop was so deadly was that
it caused a lot of collisions.)
Benchmarking is so much fun! :-}
-dgl-
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