North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Linux routing
> 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. interrupts are taking up CPU time, and vmstat is not accurately reporting it. I need *something* compute intensive to infer load by seeing how many cycles are left over. -Ralph
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