Skylar, An interesting suggestion. I'll look into it. Thanks.
Mke At 09:57 AM 12/7/2007, Skylar Thompson wrote:
Michael H. Frese wrote: > Fourth, with ttcp over tcp, I found that the troubled machine could > send 800 MB in about 20 seconds -- the wire speed for those 32-bit PCI > slots as tested by netpipe. However, if I used ttcp over udp, I > couldn't reliably send even ten 8192-byte blocks! Successive sends > and receives would receive 3, or 1, or 5 blocks. Don't ask me how > these two facts are compatible. I don't know. This sounds like it could be a flow control issue. TCP does its own flow control, but UDP doesn't. Some Ethernet switches do IEEE 802.3x, which might help your UDP performance. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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