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Re: Linux routing


From: Peter van Dijk <peter () dataloss nl>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:45:46 +0200


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:34:47PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
I don't really trust the vmstat system time numbers.  Based on some
suggestions I received, I ran some CPU intensive benchmarks during
different traffic loads, and determined how much system time was being
used by comparing the real and user times.  The results seem to show that
if I want to do 50Mbps full-duplex on 2 ports (200M aggregate) that the
standard Linux 2.2.20 routing code won't cut it.
[snip bogus benchmark]

Why are you benchmarking network troughput by bzip2'ing a file in
/tmp? It makes no sense.

Greetz, Peter
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