[WinMac] MacServerIP Performance
Josh Lampl(sunergy[at]electriciti.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 12:14:55 -0500
Chick:
Thank you for your interest in MacServerIP's relative performance.
As you know, actual performance will vary
according to the machine configuration. To be unbiased, I am
including data from sources other than Cyan. As you can
see, MacServerIP tests very favorably to its competitors and to
Services for Macintosh and includes many features and
benefits that make it an excellent choice for cross platform connectivity.
Here are the results:
1. German Magazine tests MacServerIP. May 13, 1999 -- An article in
the German-language magazine
<http://www.cat-verlag.de:591/ppinfos/FMPro?-db=prepress-archiv%2094-9
6&-format=archiv%5fdetail.htm&-lay=artikel&Artikeltext=macserver&-max=
20&-recid=61&-find>PrePress Reports
reports that file sharing with MacServerIP, an AFP over IP server for
Windows NT, is up to 4 times faster than other
AppleShare-compatible servers for NT. (Unfortunately, this article
is in German)
2. Test results Customer from the U.S.:
Your MacServerIP product is very fast.
With a new Ice Blue Mac, w/standard ethernet card, I'am getting
15.1Mb/sec. writes
17.5Mb/sec. reads
to my Dual Xeon Server, with Intel 1000Base-T Nic. Card.
With Dave I get
12.9Mb/sec. writes
15.3Mb/sec. reads
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100Base-T Ice Blue Mac / 1000 Base-T NT Server w/ 5 Channel RAID
AppleTalk / SFM
2.4Mb / Sec. Write
4.30Mb / Sec. Read
NetBIOS / TCP/IP (Dave)
7.2Mb / Sec. Write
8.4Mb / Sec. Read
AFP-over-IP / MacServerIP 6.1
8.2Mb / Sec. Write
9.2Mb / Sec. Read
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1000Base-T Ice Blue Mac / 1000 Base-T NT Server w/ 5 Channel RAID
AppleTalk / SFM
4.4Mb / Sec. Write
4.5Mb / Sec. Read
NetBIOS / TCP/IP (Dave)
10.9Mb / Sec. Write
15.3Mb / Sec. Read
AFP-over-IP / MacServerIP 6.1
15.1Mb / Sec. Write
17.4Mb / Sec. Read
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Test results from Customer from the U.K.
I used Helios LanTester to carry out the following tests averaged over 5
runs (SfM = Services for Macintosh; MSIP = Cyan MacServerIP; all figures in
seconds except where marked; all tests carried out from the same G3/266 in
OS8.1)...
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Local HD NT/SfM
NT/MacServerIP
Create 100 files at 20kb 1.19 9.65 9.26
Open/Close 100 files 0.19 5.00 0.87
Remove 100 files 0.20 2.90 1.04
Write 30mb to file (kb/s) 4670.47 1078.27 8937.44
Read 30mb to file (kb/s) 7712.08 1335.15 7620.66
Lock/Unlock 4000 times 0.94 97.84 5.97
Read Directory/320 files 0.15 0.36 0.30
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Copy to/from 200mb TIFF
100BaseTX Mac to NT/MacServerIP (MSIP) 1m15s
100BaseTX Mac/Dave to NT 1m43s
SfM to 100BaseTX Mac 3m13s
NT/MSIP to 100BaseTX Mac 0m58s
NT to 100BaseTX Mac/Dave 1m28s
Opening RAID-based 200mb TIFF (MSIP) 1m33s
Opening RAID-based 200mb TIFF (Dave) 1m57s
Chick Foxgrover wrote:
>Yes I asked about it about a month ago and there should be a few messages
>in your archives about it and other links. We have been testing file
>transfers on a minimal NT server (166Pentium) and I'll get a short report
>in an email to the list soon if none of the other sources answer your
>questions.
>
>Actually here is my original message with the links:
>
>I think, Dan that cyan is the developer:
><http://www.cyansoft.de/>http://www.cyansoft.de/
>but maybe they're related to Helios.
>
>also:
><http://www.macwindows.com/macsrvip.html>http://www.macwindows.com/ma
>csrvip.html
>here's some more reactions on this product, and the site has an annoucement
>about another product coming out soon to do AFP over IP. Looks like there's
>real market for this. Our organization has been seriously looking at
>AppleShareIP for new studio servers with an eye towards moving to OSX
>(which we in the NYC office are very sceptical of for a variety of
>reasons). This development, if the products are any good should make the
>debate very interesting.
>
>Has anyone else been looking at or using any of these?
>
> > Cyan is the USA distributor for Helios...
>>
>> They also sell PDQ... Are you familiar with this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dan
>>
>
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