Experimental evaluation of SunOS IPC and TCP/IP protocol implementation

Author

Papadopoulos, Christos ; Parulkar, Gurudatta M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

628

Abstract

Results of a study that attempts to characterize the performance of the SunOS Inter-Process Communication (IPC) and TCP/IP protocols for distributed high-bandwidth applications are presented. In general, it is found that the performance of SunOS 4.0.3 IPC on Sparcstation 1 over the Ethernet is very good. An experiment has shown that average throughput rates of up to 7.5 Mb/s are achievable. Further investigation has shown that this rate is not limited by the TCP/IP performance, but by the driver performance. Therefore, a better driver implementation will increase throughput further. Some improvements to the default IPC are still possible. The performance of IPC for local processes is estimated to be about 43% of the memory bandwidth. The interaction of computation and communication is significant. An experiment has shown that the additional load on the machine greatly decreases throughput

Keywords

computer networks; network operating systems; protocols; queueing theory; 7.5 Mbit/s; Ethernet; Sparcstation 1; SunOS 4.0.3 IPC; SunOS IPC; SunOS Inter-Process Communication; TCP/IP; computation communication interaction; computer network; default IPC; distributed high-bandwidth applications; driver performance; local processes; memory bandwidth; protocol implementation; throughput rates; Application software; Computer networks; Computer science; High-speed networks; Internet; Probes; Protocols; Sockets; TCPIP; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3580-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253309

Filename

253309