I will have to check but the switched net has a lot of traffic, but I
don't think that is it.
Probably more because the interface that I use on the switched side is
activly pulling a full news feed. I might be able to stop it for a few
minutes to test it, but I would bet the bank that the newsfeed is taxing
that switched interface.. :(
On Thu, 4 May 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > THe ncftp client should be quite sane
> > >
> > > Why not just use a very simple client/server: read/write a big chunk of
> > > zeros, and time it? No disk involvement, limited memory involvement, just
> > > a measurement of the network transfer rate.
> >
> > He's posted netperf data too - ncftp isnt a great bench tool but it agrees
> > fairly well with netperf here - its not that
>
> Yep. The next question is, why the difference in performance between
> switched and crossover? Something latency related, or ...?
>
>
> James.
>
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