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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1202 comp.os.linux:56061 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!cmaeda From: cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda) Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks Message-ID: <1993Oct11.091056.7938@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle References: <CEnnD9.H8w@agora.rain.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 09:10:56 GMT Lines: 12 In article <CEnnD9.H8w@agora.rain.com> davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman) writes: > > Now, let me say that attempting to test network performance by using >an 8bit ethernet card is rediculous. You're testing the speed that you >can write the shared memory on the board - not the networking code. No, you're testing them all. I was interested in comparing the performance differences due to operating system structure. The five different configurations I measured had identical hardware, widely varying software OS structure, and widely varying performance.