[Info-vax] Networking Benchmarks

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

On 09/13/2019 09:35 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever done any benchmarking of TCPIP vs. DECNET under
> VMS?  It seems that there should be less overhead and therefore
> greater throughput using DECNET.
>

$ write sys$output f$cvtime()
2019-09-14 10:43:35.86
$ copy/ftp t.tmp vms3"jeffrey blender"::t.tmp
$ write sys$output f$cvtime()
2019-09-14 10:43:43.71
$ copy t.tmp vms3::
$ write sys$output f$cvtime()
2019-09-14 10:43:51.24


FTP> put t.tmp
200 TYPE set to IMAGE.
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for SYS$SYSDEVICE:[JEFFREY]t.tmp; 
(10.10.12.10,49163
)
226 Transfer complete.
local: SYS$SYSDEVICE:[JEFFREY]t.tmp;2  remote: t.tmp
116359168 bytes sent in 00:00:03.26 seconds (34.04 Mbytes/s)

copy       7.85 seconds
copy/ftp   7.53 seconds
ftp	   3.26 seconds

ymmv
Jeff