Re: NetBSD/sparc64 and GbE performance

Matthias Scheler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 08:39:51PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> I have an sk/skc in my E420R, I'd be happy to report what I get.
> But, using scp is not a good test because the slow CPUs are worse
> on encryption than the network is on transfer.

"scp" is definitely not suited for testing. Besides the encryption the
file-system access and the SSH protocol will limit the throughput.

>  What tool(s) were/are you using to measure your 200/MB/sec?

There are a variety of tools in "pkgsrc" which can be used.
Here are a few examples:

	benchmarks/netio
	benchmarks/netperf 
	benchmarks/ttcp

I've used "ttcp" in this case with the following options:

Receiver:
	ttcp -r -s -b 131072

Sender:
	ttcp -t -s -b 131072 -l 32768 -n 8192 <target host>

The benchmark requires access to port 5001/TCP on the receiver.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/
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