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- From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Why is UDP slower than TCP when running ttcp over FDDI?
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- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:19:31 GMT
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- Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- Greetings,
-
- We have recently connected a Cray X/MP running Unicos 6.1 to our FDDI ring. I
- have been running some load tests using ttcp and have observed a rather odd
- behaviour, and I was hoping I might elicit comment from someone out there.
-
- When sending to a Sun 4 connected to the ring using TCP, the Cray sends at
- roughly 32 Mbits/sec. But when I send using UDP, the best I can do is
- somewhere around 10 Mbits/sec. We connect to the ring using an NSC N130
- adapter. We also have a HYPERchannel connection, and it behaves a little more
- as I would expect. Namely, a TCP send runs around 8 Mbits/sec and a UDP send
- runs a little better than 20 Mbits/sec (these rates are achieved using the
- same parameters to ttcp as in the FDDI test).
-
- Does anyone have any idea as to why UDP would run slower than TCP over the FDDI
- interface? I have run xnetmon during these tests and found that the dropped
- packet count is non-zero whenever I'm running the UDP tests (regardless of
- interface used), although I still don't know where these drops occur (my
- assumption is in the communication with the IOS). I have no reason to
- believe this has anything to do with the slower UDP rate, but it is
- interesting to find the sender tossing stuff on the ground.
-
- Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-
- best regards,
- mb
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- Mark Boolootian booloo@llnl.gov +1 510 423 1948
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- Mark Boolootian booloo@llnl.gov +1 510 423 1948
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