[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to test ethernet throughput?

[Richard Elling]

On May 18, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Doug Hughes wrote:

> A third recommendation for iperf. It's the tool you want. Don't mess around with anything else.

+1

There has been some discussion recently about using Poisson distributed interarrival
times instead of fixed interval. This could have an impact for network tests. Neil Gunther
recently posted an excellent blog on the subject. It might be time to revisit iperf and add
some features :-)
http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com/2012/05/load-testing-with-uniform-vs.html

oh, and don't forget to disable C-states, if appropriate.
 -- richard

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