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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!uunet!not-for-mail From: lidl@uunet.uu.net (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: WD8013EPT performance and MFS Date: 22 Jul 1992 01:16:43 -0400 Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 42 Sender: lidl@rodan.UU.NET Distribution: world Message-ID: <14iqvrINNmj6@rodan.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net In light of the other performance problems that people have been noting, I will give this ray of sunshine. On my 386/33, with a WD8013EPT ethernet card, I get pretty good transfers: ftp> get xtank.sun4 200 PORT command successful. 150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1076) (2719744 bytes). 226 Binary Transfer complete. 2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> get xtank.sun4 200 PORT command successful. 150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1077) (2719744 bytes). 226 Binary Transfer complete. 2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2.1e+02 Kbytes/s) Obviously, 200 or 210 Kbytes/sec is not too bad! This was, of course, going to an mfs /tmp directory. Writing to a IDE disk drive (105megs), I got about 180 Kbytes/sec throughput, on the same (unloaded) ethernet. Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this tidbit, I will. To get mfs working, you should "ln /sbin/newfs /sbin/mfs" and add an "options MFS" to your favorite kernel config and re-compile and install that kernel. Then, in your /etc/rc file, add something like this: mfs /dev/wd0b /tmp This will help you out if you have a reasonable amount of ram (ie, when I was running with 4 megs, it didn't seem to help much. It definately helps out at 8 megs. I'll let you know how it goes at more than 8 megs when I find out.) -Kurt -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@uunet.uu.net) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */ /* | phrase the question very carefully. */ /* Don't even think of confusing my opinions with my employer's opinions! */