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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!snert!hwr From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) 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: 17 Jan 1996 09:07:26 GMT Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn4fpf2e.72o.hwr@snert.pilhuhn.de> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4dic25$f15@maureen.teleport.com> Reply-To: hwr@pilhuhn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: snert.pilhuhn.de X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.4) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2003 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2156 comp.unix.solaris:57463 comp.unix.aix:68885 In article <4dic25$f15@maureen.teleport.com>, Net Connection wrote: >LMbench tests for socket bandwidth, and the Sparc - Dec - HP etc. >machines ring in at 25 to 100 times faster than the Pentiums on that >one parameter. Huh? I guess this was on different OS? >I don't know yet exactly how important that measure is, but it seems >to me that it could be very important in Web Service applications. Did you actually run any tests? I have a Newsserver running FreBSD which puts on average 1.5 MBit/s on the ethernet with maximum values of about 5MBit/s. This is far away from beeing problematic. -- Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de INN FAQ can be found in ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/news/docs/