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- From: rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Read/Write speeds over Netware lite
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.012821.8705@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <725434620snx@sound.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:28:21 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <725434620snx@sound.demon.co.uk> rob@sound.demon.co.uk writes:
- >I have been running a 4 node Netware lite with ethernet cables, and a mixture
- >of 8/16 bit cards (NE1000, 3C503, WD16), and am worried about the speeds I've
- >been getting...
- >On PC-Tools' SI, I get around 160k-Read/160k-Write /second, but sometiems this
- >drops to 100k-Read/30k-Write !
-
- What is the other station doing at this time? Recall that Netware Lite
- is a time splitter, and just doesn't get along well with certain TSR's
- and programs on either machine (my favorite reason to invalidate a
- purchase for it: it just doesn't get along well with Windows, no matter
- what Novell says).
-
- It's unlikely that in a small configuration like this that you are
- having wiring/collision type problems, but it's always a possibility. My
- first suggestion would be to boot with an absolutely clean
- config/autoexec pair on two machines and run best case scenario tests
- (remove the other machines for the purpose of this test).
-
- >Is this normal, and how can I improve this ?
- >Can you give me some figures for any cards you've tested (from 8 to 32 bit) so
- >I know what I'm up against ?
-
- The LAN magazines would be a good place to look for this. Initial tests
- placed Novell's performance pretty average (I believe the leader in peer
- to peer OS's was LanTastic).
- >
- >cheers
- >-rob-
- --
- Rich Lawrence, Synoptics Systems Engineer DOD#9630 rich@grebyn.com
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