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- From: lidl@uunet.uu.net (Kurt J. Lidl)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: WD8013EPT performance and MFS
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 01:16:43 -0400
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- In light of the other performance problems that people have
- been noting, I will give this ray of sunshine. On my
- 386/33, with a WD8013EPT ethernet card, I get pretty good
- transfers:
-
- ftp> get xtank.sun4
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1076) (2719744 bytes).
- 226 Binary Transfer complete.
- 2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2e+02 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> get xtank.sun4
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1077) (2719744 bytes).
- 226 Binary Transfer complete.
- 2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
-
- Obviously, 200 or 210 Kbytes/sec is not too bad!
-
- This was, of course, going to an mfs /tmp directory.
-
- Writing to a IDE disk drive (105megs), I got about 180 Kbytes/sec
- throughput, on the same (unloaded) ethernet.
-
- Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this tidbit, I will.
- To get mfs working, you should "ln /sbin/newfs /sbin/mfs" and
- add an "options MFS" to your favorite kernel config and re-compile
- and install that kernel.
-
- Then, in your /etc/rc file, add something like this:
-
- mfs /dev/wd0b /tmp
-
- This will help you out if you have a reasonable amount of ram
- (ie, when I was running with 4 megs, it didn't seem to help much.
- It definately helps out at 8 megs. I'll let you know how it goes
- at more than 8 megs when I find out.)
-
- -Kurt
- --
- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@uunet.uu.net) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */
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