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Offline patrik

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Speed Ratings. Contributions required
« on: June 20, 2006, 11:15:20 AM »
I have a somewhat ordered mess of tests done with ttcp collected here. They have a varying level of documentation, but I think you will find some interesting info there.

What ttcp does is that it measures the raw TCP or UDP performance to/from memory. So basically it measures the performance of the TCP/IP-stack+network-device-driver+hardware combo of your system, without inducing any protocol overhead of say a ftp client or similar.

The most interesting is the TCP performance, as that is what most software used for bandwith-intensive stuff like file-transfers uses. This also the top roof in performance you can expect of well/effective written software. For example smbfs will with larger blocks achieve just about the top TCP scores you get with ttcp.

I have posted some earlier regarding how to use ttcp, which you should find if you do a search on the forum.

Btw, very important to get good performance is to make sure you have good "multitasking performance" - exec.library, VBR, etc should be in fastmem for example if you have an accelerator. It also often doesn't hurt to have a good CopyMem()/CopyMemQuick() patch installed.


/Patrik