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- From: nautilus@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (John M. Twilley)
- Subject: Re: Layers question.
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- Organization: The Voice of Fate
- References: <+lz1!a@rpi.edu> <19392@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:02:46 GMT
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- In article <19392@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- >In article <+lz1!a@rpi.edu> nautilus@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (John M. Twilley) writes:
- >>I was wondering why layers spends so little time transferring data from
- >>host to terminal. I hooked up a 9600 bps modem, and got no better
- >>throughput than I did at 2400. Help?
- >
- >If you're using a pty-based layers rather than an xt- or STREAMS-based
- >version, the host is being eaten alive by context-switch overhead.
- Nope -- xt-based. Would one of those switches (-h?) help if I put
- STREAMS in?
- >
- >Packet size is also rather small so some of the link bandwidth is
- >consumed by packet framing overhead. I think the 730 supports a
- >larger packet size but the host "layers" process might not be using it.
- I can't seem to get the packet size to grow -- I don't think the 5620 supports
- it.
- >
- >In the resident terminal emulator mode, the terminal does a lot of work
- >per character and so its effective "glass tty" speed is less than one
- >would imagine. This is especially obvious when using Dave Prosser's
- >(otherwise very nice) "myx" on a 5620.
- Where can I find this "myx"? Is it vailable from FTP?
- >
- >I can see a substantial difference between 9600bps and 19200bps links
- >between my 630 and a directly-connected Sun-3/50 host.
- >
- >Note that so-called "9600bps" modems operated over voice-grade phone
- >lines, if they depend on statistical data compression, will have less
- >effective throughput than that when transmitting random binary data
- >instead of highly patterned data.
-
-
- Also, I often call out from my DMD to other computers through my 3B2.
- Does anyone out there have a good terminal program written todo the
- following?
-
- - do as much as possible on the DMD's processor, excepting file xfer
-
- - provide VTx00 emulation (ancorrectly resize the windo, ifnecesarry)
-
- If anyone has any leads, please let me know .....
- Jack.
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- John M. Twilley | It's only premarital sex if
- nautilus@acm.rpi.edu | you're going to get married.
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