On 7/20/05, Daniel Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:04 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:23 am, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 00:32 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > - networking is another frequent source of latencies - it might make
> > > > sense to add a workload doing lots of socket IO. (localhost might be
> > > > enough, but not for everything)
> > >
> > > The Gnutella test?
> >
> > I've seen some massive latencies on mainline when throwing network loads from
> > outside, but with my limited knowledge I haven't found a way to implement
> > such a thing locally. I'll look at this gnutella test at some stage to see
> > what it is and if I can adopt the load within interbench. Thanks for the
> > suggestion.
>
> There isn't actually a test called "The Gnutella test" , but I think
> Gnutella clients put lots of network load on a system (Lee was talking
> about that not to long ago). I was thinking that type of load may have
> been what Ingo was talking about.
>
If you want to generate a lot of network related interrupts, wouldn't
a much simpler way to do that be a simple
ping -f targetbox
from a host connected to `targetbox' via a crosswired ethernet cable
or a fast switch..?
Also easy to modify the size of the ping packets if you want to.
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