Re: gnokii, Linux and irda

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Simon Huggins wrote:

> 'ello gnokii
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:18:27PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > Testing command was 'gnokii --getphonebook ME 1 end'.
> [..]
> > ----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
> > Model and connection                    | Avg time      | Max time      |
> > Nokia 6210      ------------------------+---------------+---------------|
> > model = AT/connection = irda            | 3min20s       | 3min47s       |
> > model = 6210/conection = irda           | 3min17s       | 3min24s       |
> > model = AT/connection = serial          | 39s           | 39s           |
> > model = 6210/connection = serial        | 19s           | 19s           |
> > ----------------------------------------+---------------+---------------+
>
> I get 34s for a 6210 over IrDA with a IrDA attached to the IrDA header
> on my motherboard.

Is it Linux?

> Though actually printing all the "Empty memory location" stuff does make
> it /seem/ slower by the time it returns.

Redirecting do /dev/null saves printing time.

> > Can anyone confirm that any other software performs much better over
> > infrared? Last Friday my friend was doing SonyEricsson t65i backup
> > over irda under XP and it was the hell slow either.
>
> This is with gnokii 4.3 and 169 entries doing
> /usr/bin/time gnokii --getphonebook ME 1 end.

What about newer gnokii version? Again, redirecting to /dev/null would
show better result.

pkot
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