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<body>Brad Campbell wrote:<br>
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Windows would NEVER let me write at 4x on-the-fly, over a loaded<br>
10BaseT Network.. it would always buffer underrun, linux does not<br>
even blink.</pre>
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The machine in front of me (K6-2-500+64MB) gets a sustained (Nc-) FTP rate
of 8 megabytes/second over 100BaseT (from a K6-2-400 with 128MB which is
being a proxy, masq, mail, web, name etc server) while burning a CD at 4x
(6% max buffer useage) from a local hard disk and playing Monty Python's
"Brave Sir Robin" song with XMMS through an ISA sound-card. And browsing/emailing
with Mozilla M14.<br>
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I haven't one with a CD burner in it to test, but a P-133 here also gets
8MB/s FTPing from/to the same server while playing MP3s through a PCI soundcard.
I have to "renice -5" XMMS or the sound goes all choppy.<br>
<br>
The Windows 98 SE machine behind me (K6-II-450+256MB) has thrown PhotoShop
away again and probably needs reinstalling. You'd be lucky to get 1/6 of
the FTP speed out of it without trying to run anything else, even when it's
in good nick. And installing RealPlayer on it is almost certain death. The
same machine running under Linux gets - surprise - 8MB/s...<br>
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Perhaps we should do an informal NT benchmark, to be fair?<br>
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