Richard wrote:
> With the Q60/QLwIP as server I currently get average 854 kBytes/sec HTTP > throughput, measured with Ethereal, transferring a file larger than 10MB. > It would be interesting how far from the optimal value this is still away. >
if it is really reading all 10 MB of data from disk than thats very fast, the disk access wont allow for much faster operation.
No, it's from buffer, as I wrote in another posting. I have to use Qubide.
Otherwise pure networking speed over TCP gets very close to the theoretical 1.25 MB/s between 2 Linux computers
Interesting info.
Measuring with Ethereal is an overkill,
Since the overkill just costs a few mouseclicks I don't care :-)
better measure is
ifconfig eth0; wget ....; ifconfig eth0
... returns raw and usable speed. I get this, 172.16.0.2 is the Q60 running Linux:
ifconfig eth0; wget -O /dev/null http://172.16.0.2/file.xxx; ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:84:3B:FB inet addr:172.16.0.1 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8278 errors:0 dropped:51 overruns:0 frame:8 TX packets:4756 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 collisions:68 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:11069431 (10.5 Mb) TX bytes:398565 (389.2 Kb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0x2000
--18:22:46-- http://172.16.0.2/file.xxx => `/dev/null' Connecting to 172.16.0.2:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10,485,760 [text/plain]
100%[====================================>] 10,485,760 982.07K/s ETA 00:00
18:22:56 (982.07 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [10485760/10485760]
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:84:3B:FB inet addr:172.16.0.1 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15841 errors:0 dropped:51 overruns:0 frame:8 TX packets:8563 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8 collisions:68 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:22054706 (21.0 Mb) TX bytes:649940 (634.7 Kb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0x2000
So raw and usable speed are about 5% appart including HTTP overhead, 982 KB/s and 1028KB/s.
Thanks! How have you calculated raw speed?
(Delta ifconfig RX bytes / wget bytes) * wget speed ?
Note that the timing may depend on the binary pattern of the file, eg a file consisting of all 0 should theoretically need considerably more time than a file with random patterns
:-)
All the best Peter
