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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: hyc@frisky.la.platsol.com (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: netatalk, CAP, and FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:03:21 -0700 Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 24 Message-ID: <R.51vesp$10gv@frisky.la.platsol.com> References: <3238851B.41C67EA6@best.com> <323C9757.167EB0E7@whistle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: frisky.la.platsol.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27828 comp.protocols.appletalk:22602 Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. In article <323C9757.167EB0E7@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: %Leo Cazares wrote: %> Question for users of CAP on FreeBSD: %> How long does it take to copy a 1 Meg file from FreeBSD to a Mac? %> ( I am asking because it takes many minutes when I know that %> it should take less than 1 minute ) %The speed isn't "amazing" considering that afpd is a user-level process %but it took 11 seconds to copy a 1.13 MB file to the desktop from %my freeBSD machine.. %The FreeBSD machine has slow disks and is only a 486-66, %and the time includes startup time, %and the mac is quite old, so I'm not sure which part is the %bottleneck, but it seems to be a lot better than what you saw.. Just as another datapoint, my PowerMac 8500/120 sustains ~400KB/sec transfer rates to a Gateway P5-90 running PC-Interface/Macintosh on SCO OpenServer 5. Our AFP server is also a user-level process, with the AppleTalk stack implemented in a collection of STREAMS drivers. There's still a little room for improvement, but not too much more than that. ATP is just too limiting... -- Howard Chu Principal Member of Technical Staff hyc@locus.com PLATINUM technology, Los Angeles Lab