Oh alright Mr Dan (show-off) Tucny! We've had quite enough of your
stupidly fast LAN stats thank you ;-) :-)
Well I guess we are a bit pathetic here really. Not sure what the
problem is, but Brendan's gonna have a chat with the network admins in
this new building we've moved into to check the cabling type, hubs,
switches etc.
Ah well, thanks for all the feedback people.
Ben
Dan Tucny wrote:
>
> Me again, unfortunately, the previous one was slowed down due to disk
> access, which while providing a more realistic figure as far as real world
> performance, doesn't test the network connection fully...
>
> Ran again once cached...
>
> Document Path: /w2ksp2.exe
> Document Length: 106278016 bytes
>
> Concurrency Level: 1
> Time taken for tests: 9.514 seconds
> Complete requests: 1
> Failed requests: 0
> Total transferred: 106278379 bytes
> HTML transferred: 106278016 bytes
> Requests per second: 0.11
> Transfer rate: 11170.74 kb/s received
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:49 PM
> Subject: [OT ish] - Is it our LAN?
>
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I have just been benchmarking my freeVSD test server to ensure that its
> > up to scratch before we consider going live. Let's give you a bit of
> > background (don't laugh at the system specs - we're buying a proper
> > server soon!).
> >
> > Testing on 100mbps internal LAN.
> > homer.office.fubra = AMD K6-2 500mhz with 128MB
> > chiefwigham.office.fubra = AMD K6-2 500mhz with 64MB
> > brendan.office.fubra = A virtual server (one of 3) on chiefwigham
> >
> > homer and chiefwigham basically sit on top of each other.
> >
> > I have been testing HTTP (with apache benchmark - ab executable) and
> > FTP. Testing brendan/chiefwigham was done from homer..
> >
> > Tests were all done with an 11MB binary (directX 8 dx80eng.exe) Tests
> > performed 3 times each. Results are means of the 3 tests...
> >
> > HTTP
> > ====
> > chiefwigham - 275 k/s
> > brendan - 301 k/s (why this is faster than chiefwigham i don't
> > know either!?)
> >
> > FTP (downloading)
> > ===
> > chiefwigham - 283 k/s
> > brendan - 347 k/s
> >
> > FTP (uploads)
> > ===
> > chiefwigham - 192 k/s
> > brendan - 180 k/s
> >
> >
> > So, my question to you, is shouldn't these be a lot better on a 100mbps
> > LAN? Is there anything that needs doing to increase these (other than
> > CPU & RAM upgrades?)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any responses,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ben Kennish
> >
> > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > w: www.fubra.com
