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From: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: UUCP performance
Message-ID: <39@rsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 19:03:25 GMT
References: <601@marob.MASA.COM> <603@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Organization: Reiter Software Inc., British Columbia Canada
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In article <603@marob.MASA.COM> manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) writes:
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>I heard an unconfirmed story that Xenix 2.3's UUCP transfer time
>accounting is broken and shouldn't be trusted.

You can "Trust" it to be out by a factor of exactly 2.5.  If it says that you
achieved 200 cps then you know that you achieved 500 cps.

I'm told they used a HZ value of 20 instead of 50.

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