Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:38:05 -0500 From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> To: billf@mu.org Cc: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net> Subject: Re: suffering from poor network performance... Message-ID: <20031218233805.GQ82121@overlord.e-gerbil.net> In-Reply-To: <20031217043232.GC82802@elvis.mu.org> References: <2B766ABB-3027-11D8-A624-000A95775140@battleface.com> <DB9B6109-3030-11D8-AB9B-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <38E6743A-3044-11D8-B24B-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> <20031217043232.GC82802@elvis.mu.org>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:32:32PM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [ this isn't really -net material ] > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:50:57PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > > >First, Barney was correct: using "ping -f" will run into the ICMP > > >response limitation. Try using "ping -i 0.01 _hostname_", instead, > > >and you may find out that you don't have a problem with packet loss at > > >all at this lower speed. > > > > I wish I had a FreeBSD box to check this on, but from an OS X G5 to an > > Athlon WinXP box (both at 100% CPU from distribfolding client: > > which is completely irrelevant because your winxp machine doesn't have > the aforementioned icmp response limiter. Can a brothah get a ping "as fast as we can get responses back" (like Juniper's ping rapid) around here? -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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