It would be very interesting to see these numbers with MacOS 8.5+ used as the OS. Apple made some dramatic improvements in the interrupt handling in 8.5, and was fond of running demos of Appleshare that drove a 100BaseT network at the full 100 MBit/second. I don't know if the antique 7200/90 will give you the full effect, but the numbers would be very interesting... -dgl- At 11:38 AM -0500 5/6/00, Spatch wrote: >Don't know if anyone would care, but here is a benchmark of network >thruput using 10Base-T and 100Base-TX networks comparing a lot of things >(read the how to read this document). It does also compare different >versions of Linux/netatalk and compares netatalks 1 file copy thruput >weith Fetchs' and Anarchies' thruput (both FTP programs). > >Well anyway, here you go... > > > > > >How to read this document: >You can use the benchmarks here to do a number of comparisons (in order >of what my goals were): >1) Network card, hub/switch comparison between 10 and 100base-T > Compare Table 1 to Table 2 >2) Comparing Mac OS 8.1's thruput to 7.6.1's thruput > Compare the internal times of any table for this. >3) Comparing WIndows 95a to WIndows 95b's thruput. > Use Table 3 between 95a to 95b. >4) Compare faster server harddrive and updated server software to old. > Compare Table 2 to Table 3. >5) Compare Mac thruput to PC thruput. This is by the way, the least fair > test since the Mac is so much slower than the PC, at least in > clock speed, and because the server side apps are written by > different groups and will likely themselves cause different times > to come out. This is why I used the ftp method of copying one > file in Table 3. Both the Mac and PC use the same server FTP software. > >This is a list of thruput rates measured in seconds (see note at the end >of this document to lean of how this was done) calculated into actual >KB/s. > >Table 1: >With the old network cards and the old hub, copying from the server to a >freshly booted client, (server using Conner 540MB CF540A ISA HD, 516MB >w/64kB Cache, PIO Mode 3): >OS-Platform # files Size Time (in seconds) Thruput >Windows 95a 898 files 48.6 MB 99, 106, 105 = 103 483 KB/s >Windows 95a 1 file 39.9 MB 63, 64, 63 = 63 648.5 KB/s >Mac-OS 8.1 898 files 48.6 MB 233, 252, 277 = 254 196 KB/s >Mac-OS 8.1 1 file 39.9 MB 90, 96, 96 = 94 434.6 KB/s >Mac-OS 7.6.1 898 files 48.6 MB 209, 211, 215 = 212 234 KB/s >Mac-OS 7.6.1 1 file 39.9 MB 86, 79, 85 = 83 492 KB/s > > [snip the rest...]
