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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!help.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: problems bringing up 386BSD 0.1 Message-ID: <michaelv.711604391@help.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <RAEBURN.92Jul17141049@cambridge.cygnus.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 03:53:11 GMT Lines: 20 In <RAEBURN.92Jul17141049@cambridge.cygnus.com> raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes: >Using ftp to copy something from a remote machine to local disk is very >slow. Local disk-to-disk copy is fast, ftp into /dev/null is fast; it's [...] >drivers). I'm using an NE2000 card configured for IRQ 9, which is what >the Tiny kernel seemed to default to. (Under 0.0, I used it at IRQ 3; the >performance was fine, and I didn't have the second COM line configured.) I'm quite surprised. I just used ftp to transfer the bindist files to my hard drive from a local ftp site on campus, and the throughput was higher than I've ever seen on this machine before. I'm using a WD8013EBT card and was seeing 120Kbytes/sec rates... never seen my machine do that before. Good job guys. :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon "Ignorance is bliss..." michaelv@iastate.edu -- Computer Engineering, Iowa State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------