Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:32:29 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: FTP benchmark proposal |
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Jes Sorensen writes: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes: > > Richard> Matthew Wilcox writes: > >> Why do you suggest that? One gigabit network card is cheaper than > >> 4 hundred megabit cards and provides more bandwidth. One of the > >> reasons the Mindcraft benchmarketing exercise was so poor. > > Richard> It makes sense to be able to easily rig up a test bench which > Richard> is being used to embarrass us. If we had had such a rig at > Richard> the time of the original M$^WMindcraft tests, we could have > Richard> fixed the problems by the second test. Flexibility in the > Richard> test rig is highly desirable. > > We are talking about an ftp benchmark here to see if we can actually > keep up with the FreeBSD guys - last I checked nobody from M$ had > mentioned them in an ftp bench.
Yeah, sure. I realise that. But if resources are going to be put into setting up a test bench, I'd hope that it's not too narrowly focussed.
The FreeBSD ftp results prompted Larry to promote the idea of a "community" test bench. Let's see if we can expand the terms of reference.
Are you suggesting that promoting a more flexible test bench is a bad idea?
Regards,
Richard....
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