How to speed up uucp with Telebits(only getting 800 chars/sec )

John Kennedy johnk at opel.UUCP
Fri Jul 7 22:32:10 AEST 1989


In article <1160 at intercon.UUCP> amanda at intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) writes:
amanda>In article <200038 at hrc.UUCP>, dan at hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
dan> I feed several sites here in Arizona. Most of my sites get at least
dan> 1100 chars/second. But there are 2 that are getting 800-900 chars/second.
dan> 
dan> Of course, we are running Telebits, and don't have uucp source code.
dan> 

amanda> My guess is that the two sites in question are talking to their
amanda> Telebits at 9600 baud instead of 19200 baud, thus causing a bottleneck
amanda> on their end.  Either that or they're using T1000s, which only go up to
amanda> 9600.

Is it possible to tell if a given site (including your own) is suffering
from a high amount of retried data due to UART overruns, etc.?  All I've
ever seen is a *net* throughput in chars/second, but can you monitor
a success ratio on the protocol?



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John Kennedy                     johnk at opel.UUCP
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD



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