Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:7964 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:3964 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ubvax!vsi1!wyse!mips!djl From: djl@mips.COM (Dan Levin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: FTP performance figures Message-ID: <2546@winchester.mips.COM> Date: 5 Jul 88 22:56:08 GMT Lines: 32 I am trying to get a handle on modern ethernet performance (ok, so so are a couple of hundred other people...). FTP binary mode was always one useful measure, and so I am after some numbers. I would appreciate any results of the following command (or equivalent on your system): ftp> binary 200 type set to I ftp> get /vmunix /dev/null #(you V guys and gals can use /unix) ?????? bytes received in ?.? seconds (????? Kbytes/s) I am most interested in commercial UNIX boxes running classical user-mode FTP servers. I need to know the hw/sw configuration of both ends of the transaction. What I am really after is the fastest implementation out there. I will post the results if I get enough to notice. Just to get the ball rolling: 70 Kbytes/Sec. About what an 11/780 running 4.2 would do 100 Kbytes/Sec. Pretty good 680?0 UNIX box ??? Kbytes/Sec. Pretty good modern UNIX box 1000 Kbytes/Sec. Max practical Ethernet throughput 1250 Kbytes/Sec. Max theoretical Ethernet throughput Thanks, -- ***dan {decwrl,pyramid,ames}!mips!djl djl@mips.com (No, Really! Trust Me.)