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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Performance of UUCP under DELL Unix (SVR4 issue 2.2)
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 02:59:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.235526.1476@jeck.amherst.nh.us>
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- In article <1992Nov8.235526.1476@jeck.amherst.nh.us> coffler@jeck.amherst.nh.us (Jeff Coffler) writes:
- >
- >Howdy,
- >
- >I've noticed what I believe to be a UUCP performance problem under DELL Unix
- >(SVR4 issue 2.2).
- >. . . .
- >At home, while I'm transferring to another site, CTS *NEVER* flickers. That
- >is, I have CTS/RTS always on solid. One would think that I wasn't feeding data
- >to the modem fast enough, but this isn't the case (the Worldblazer serial rate
- >is 115k bps, fed by a Digiboard EPC/X). Given this, it seems that the modem is
- >most likely not transferring at it's maximum capacity ...
-
- Remember that UUCP-g is a windowed protocol; once the window is "filled"
- data transmission stops until an ACK is received. I suspect that the
- "highwater level" in the WorldBlazer's buffering is greater than an entire
- window's worth (three or seven packets in common UUCP-g implementations)
- such that hardware flow control is never required.
-
- Are you using the Telebit's UUCP-g spoofing? This allows the modem to
- absorb more than a window's worth of packets, but because the modem is
- generating the ACK's in that case, it doesn't /need/ any other form of flow
- control. A Telebit person could tell you why the T-2500 does.
-
- I've seen a similar situation--doing FTP transfers over a PPP link--where
- TCP/IP's windowing usually keeps RTS/CTS flow control from coming into
- play for a single transfer, even though it is running close to the
- theoretical datarate. Any additional traffic over the link pushes it
- "over the line", and the CTS light starts blinking...
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
-