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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!peyto!thurlow From: thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 20 Jan 1996 02:13:38 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Lines: 35 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dpj4i$mdt@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4depms$bi5@park.uvsc.edu> <4dnjeh$b48@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4dpdgg$csu@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peyto.eng.sun.com Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1944 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2088 comp.unix.solaris:57192 comp.unix.aix:68677 In article <4dpdgg$csu@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > identically configured? > "fast NFS write" > both UDP? I didn't take the time to control the configurations beyond noting that they had the same amount of memory (32Mb, I think). It would have been best to run it on the same hardware, but it's not trivial to get hold of 4.1.x in my Sun neighborhood. The one running SunOS 5.5 was actually diskless :-) Both were using UDP. By "fast NFS write", do you mean the old kudp_fastsend path, where the code built a monolithic UDP/IP packet in place and bypassed the formal layering? If so, SunOS 5.5 no longer has that code, or any kind of equivalent. It had to lose it for transport independance and for NFS/TCP. >Again, thanks for the numbers -- they are quite interesting, >even if they aren't compelling without the other information >as well. They make a good case for Solaris for an ISP who >isn't up to the level of coding/tuning necessary to make the >other factors make a difference, and has more than a 2.3 Mbit/S >connection to his NSP which he wants to fully utilize. Thanks. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@eng.sun.com There was something fishy about the butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale. -- Nick Danger, Third Eye