Re: [MiNT] ethernat download speed

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:25 +0100, Miro Kropacek wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> today I spent quite a time with testing one strange bug which appeared
> as LAN setup issue but in the end it's something more critical. My
> problem was yesterday I had to transfer ~200 MB file to my falcon and
> I noticed it takes a little bit more time than I used to get. After
> some measurements, it was clear my download speed mystically lowered
> at hundreds of KB instead of thousands of KB... after numerous tests
> I'm able to say this:
> 
> - latest freemint + old ethernat.xif by nature -- OK
> - - // -               + r1.2 from cvs compiled against gcc 2.95 -- OK
> - - // -               + latest cvs revision (with alan's patch for
> hang up) compiled against gcc 2.95 -- BAD
> - - // -               + r1.2 from cvs compiled against gcc 4.3.2 +
> binutils 2.18 -- BAD (!!!) [here I left libkern still compiled with
> 2.95]
> 
> OK = 1.5 MB/s, BAD = 500 KB/s and lower (mostly about 200 KB/s)
> 
> I've made some other tests but I'm quite tired to verify them once
> again. Could you please someone verify this? Maybe it's happening only
> on my machine (bad luck? ;-) I test it with laptop running ubuntu
> +proftpd and freemint running commandline client. I always swapped
> only ethernat.xif, everything other stay.

Performance has always varied wildly for me no matter which version I've
used.

Sometimes it's 100KB/s and other times it's 900KB/s. Never got as high
as 1500KB/s though.

Alan.