On Thursday 17 January 2008 14:47:25 Aaron Turner wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 9:12 AM, comfooc <comfooc%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: > > Hi, > > few weeks ago i made some test using scp. > > Systems were out of the box. > > Machine 1 : OpenBSD; P3 500Mhz; 192Mram; 10Mbps; > > Machine 2 : tripleboot :OpenBSD, Linux, NetBSD; P3 750Mhz, 512Mram, 100Mbps; > > > > Transfers were: > > Machine 1 <=average 800KBps=> Machine 2 : Linux > > Machine 1 <=average 550KBps=> Machine 2 : NetBSD > > Machine 1 <=average 950KBps=> Machine 2 : OpenBSD > > > > What might caused that low transfer? How to improve it? > > Cheers... > > Machine #1 has a 10Mbps NIC? 950KBps is ~ 7.4Mbps. Considering > 10Mbps is 1/2 duplex, and considering TCP overhead, etc I can't say > I'm all that shocked your performance sucks. That is an assumption that 10Mbps is half duplex. He was asking why the system running NetBSD performs quite a bit worse then when running the same system with OpenBSD or Linux. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.