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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: ProTERM 3.0 max limit
- Message-ID: <feFv03.B40xe00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 04:16:00 GMT
- Reply-To: fadden@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 38
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- I've been playing with a v.32bis/v.42bis connection for the past couple
- of days (that's 14.4Kbps with compression) and ProTERM 3.0, and it seems that
- the maximum possible throughput is around 2700 chars per second.
-
- Basically I've got the port set at 38.4 and am downloading a file containing
- 200,000 asterisks from a UNIX host using Ymodem-G (Zmodem gave similar
- results, so don't tell me to go do that). As far as I can tell, ProTERM
- does something like:
-
- accept data until the recv buffer is full
- drop RTS
- wait for a bit to make sure nothing has come through while we were busy
- setting the pot
- write the stuff to disk
- raise RTS
-
- The halt to write data was about 1.5 - 2 seconds, happening once every 64K.
- Writing to /ram5 had about the same results as writing to my RamFAST.
-
- It's possible that the compression isn't squashing stuff as small as possible,
- but sending /usr/dict/words was accomplished in one run at 2698 cps -- almost
- exactly what the asterisks file got. Even if you add a bit for Ymodem
- overhead, it's nowhere near the theoretical max (3840 cps).
-
- I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. I know that having bursts for file
- updates (and there were at least four of them during the transfer) is going
- to affect the overall rate. However, the "rd" light wasn't fully on except
- for the first few seconds right after RTS was raised, so perhaps it's a mix
- of a non-optimal compression dictionary with the lack of asynchronous I/O.
-
- So I dunno. But if you've gone significantly beyond 2700cps (that's about
- 158K per minute), I'd be interested in hearing what you did. It does make
- me wonder whether the 57.6K fix for ProTERM has any value other than for a
- null modem cable.
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-