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Re: Linux routing

  • From: Peter van Dijk
  • Date: Wed May 22 03:49:47 2002

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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