Re: IP Bottleneck?

[bruce-list@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Hobbs, Netburg Internet Services)]

Tim,

10 Mbps Ethernet has a maximum practical throughput of 6 Mbps which is less 
than one workstation controller can do. If you are running more than 30 
sessions on a 10 Mbps Ethernet connection, that's your problem.

Bruce


On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 6:16:50 PM GMT Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:


>I was just wondering about a possible bottleneck...
>
>All of our users screens, and printers are connected to our as/400 via an IP
>connection.  I was wondering how to tell is the tcp server is being
>overworked, and not being able to process print jobs as quickly as
>possible..  Or maybe the ip server may be causing system slowness..
>
>We have a fairly large system, but the response time seems to be really
>dragging... 2-3 minutes to do a telnet connection... or 15-20 minutes to do
>a program dump when a job fails...
>
>Our interactive seems fine...  but I'm just a little stumped....
>
>Also, I was wondering if there is a way to see how much our systems
>resources are going to re-indexing files?  Maybe purging some file might
>help...  Is there a way to tell?
>
>I guess we can through more memory at it...
>
>thanks,
>tim
>
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