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- From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Performance of UUCP under DELL Unix (SVR4 issue 2.2)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.000907.20363@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Nov8.235526.1476@jeck.amherst.nh.us>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:09:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.235526.1476@jeck.amherst.nh.us> coffler@jeck.amherst.nh.us (Jeff Coffler) writes:
- >
- >At work, I have a DECstation 5000/200 that talks UUCP to my home system. The
- >modem at work is a T-2500. The modem at home is a Worldblazer.
- >
- >At work, during a transfer, the CTS modem indicator goes on and off (as one
- >would expect); the system transfers as much data as possible to the modem, and
- >then the modem uses flow control to moderate it.
- >
- >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 ...
- >
-
- Looking just at the CTS light can be a red herring. These are two
- different model modems you're looking at. Different modem, different
- CTS light behavior.
-
- The WorldBlazer's spoofing simply doesn't let the buffer fill up enough
- to trigger flow control. The T2500's spoofing does. That doesn't mean
- you're not giving the modem enough data to transfer efficiently. You're
- giving the modem as much as it wants. If it wanted another packet, it
- would return an ACK.
-
- There is one and only one gauge of whether your transfers are moving at
- maximum capacity: Measure them (preferably with a stopwatch) and compare
- the results with the expected throughput from the modem link. Over a
- Turbo-PEP connection on good lines (S70/S72 read 25000 or higher),
- you should get uucp throughputs in the 1900-2100 cps range. Higher,
- if your data can be compressed. Remember that data errors in the
- receiving system can slow throughput down, and make you think it's
- the modem's fault. Make sure you measure transfers that don't register
- any errors on the receiving system.
-
-
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