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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip Message-ID: <CJJHoM.r9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department References: <2gv4lc$l0i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1994Jan12.142552.6187@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <CJJ0w6.ADo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2h1neg$gju@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 23:09:57 GMT Lines: 47 In article <2h1neg$gju@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <CJJ0w6.ADo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, >Jim Pitts <pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu> wrote: >>In article <1994Jan12.142552.6187@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, >>Peter Howlett <b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> wrote: >>>I can get up to 3000 Chars/Sec on kermit transferring binary (gzip'd) files. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ > >I have an EXTREMELY hard time believing that since I'm downloading >binary files with Kermit with my brand new 14.4 and it's maxing out at >around 1700 Chars/sec with zmodem. Granted I'm not running 57.6 (38.4) >but the speed difference + modmem compression should not give you a >2 x increase in speed. > > >>>My machine by the way is a 386DX/25 w 8M Ram and X running constantly. >> >>I find this -very- hard to believe. I have basically the same set up except >>that I run FreeBSD, the sio device drivers, have a faster CPU and use zmodem >>rather than kermit (I also use ftp with ppp). I am luck to get 1.2 K/s transfer >>rate with a 16550A. Either I am doing something drastically wrong or you are >>doing something drastically correct. > >I also have a difficult time believing it as well. > >>I realize that the sio drivers are a slow down, and the 'new' kermit is much >>more efficent than it used to be ... but a factor of 2 or more? > >I don't understand the 'sio drivers are a slow down' part of that. The sio >drivers are much more efficient than the NetBSD drivers publically available. > > Many moons ago I posted posted something about how the sio drivers had solved all the problems in my life ... how great they are. I got several flame messages telling me that the NetBSD drivers were faster and I was an idiot. Not the latter -may- be true, I don't deny it ... but I honestly never saw any performance loss when I went to FreeBSD and its sio drivers. I never measured with enough intrest to notice a speed -increase-. -- - pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu ^ | James J. Pitts - - Most people are sheep. /@\ | IU Physics Dept - - Only a select few are fit to rule. / \ | Voice: 812-855-8247 - - We are The Bavarian Illuminati. /_____\ | FAX : 812-855-5533 -