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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:56:31AM -0800, pete wright wrote:

> >Tried to use iperf from ports in UDP mode with 64 byte payload,
> >but it calls gettimeofday() after each write and gives me about 80Kpps only
> >for Pentium D 2.8Ghz.
> >
> >What alternative should I use? May be, a netgraph node?
> 
> I've done some benchmarking/testing of 10gig-e NIC's using a combo of
> iperf/netgraph and ttcp with good results.  all are available in
> ports.

What pps numbers had you obtained? What CPU had you used?
I don't like iperf for gettimeofday() overhead.

Eugene