[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/29/15 6:03 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> johnson.eric at gmail.com
>> Sent: 29-Mar-15 4:49 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

>> My basic mode of comparison was... how long does it take to send a
>> single
>> 80 byte UDP packet. I measured that by doing that in a tight loop. It was
>> pretty
>> easy to write a portable version that ran on both Linux and VMS. For
>> grins
>> I also write a version that used the QIO$ interface. That improved things
>> a little
>> bit, but Linux still won by a wide margin.
>>
>> EJ
>
> Not saying that Linux might be marginally faster, but usually when there Is
> a "wide margin", there is usually something else under pinning the results.
>
> When network results like this are seen, I usually think of the mis-matched
> full duplex auto-config issue with older network gear, NIC's and drivers.

Kerry, please read more details of Eric's careful analysis in the
archives of this group before posting such nonsense.