Title :
Network performance in a workstation environment
Author :
Wallace, Robert B. ; Zhou, Shiyu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Presents a measurement study of a 10-Mb/s Ethernet network that supports about 100 hosts. Over 15-min intervals the authors observed up to 50% network utilization the bulk of which was due to remote paging and process swapping. The sizes of packets roughly follow a bimodal distribution. It is concluded that faster local networks will soon be necessary for moderate-size systems. The measurement data presented should be useful in the design and management of distributed systems
Keywords :
distributed processing; local area networks; performance evaluation; workstations; 10 Mbit/s; Ethernet network; bimodal distribution; distributed systems; local networks; network performance measurement; network utilization; packet size; process swapping; remote paging; workstation environment; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; File servers; Intelligent networks; Network servers; Printing; Telecommunication traffic; Time sharing computer systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1989. Vol.II: Software Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1912-0
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1989.48102
