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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:50:44 -0500
Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine
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Peter Mutsaers wrote:


> 
>             *Local* Communication bandwidths in megabytes/second
>             ----------------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS Pipe  TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem   Mem
>                                   reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
> --------- ------------- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
> plm.xs4al FreeBSD 2.2-C   42   10     28     39     26     25   49    45
> plm         Linux 2.0.5   24    9     26     43     26     25   49    46
> 
> FreeBSD's pipe bandwidth was 25, now is 42! Has it really improved
> that much or is the benchmark inaccurate?
>
The benchmark result reflects an improvement in the code. :-)
 
> 
> By the way, I also ran iozone on FreeBSD's UFS and on Linux's
> ext2fs. I use a NCR 815 SCSI controller, and read/wrote a 50MB file.
> 
> FreeBSD  512b records: wrote 1.99 M/s, read 2.49 M/s
>         8192b records: wrote 1.95 M/s, read 2.62 M/s
> 
> Linux    512b records: wrote 2.90 M/s, read 3.98 M/s
>         8192b records: wrote 3.40 M/s, read 4.40 M/s
>
EEEK!!!  I'll look into that, hopefully it is just a fragged
filesystem!!! 

John