From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 5 13:26:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9EE37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g15LQQo54684; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id g15LQQv04742; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:26:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:26:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202052126.g15LQQv04742@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: A question about timecounters In-Reply-To: <93251.1012941450@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <93251.1012941450@critter.freebsd.dk> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <93251.1012941450@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Well, either way I will commit the volatile and this NTIMECOUNTER to > -current now, it's certainly better than what is there now. Great, thanks. > Thanks for the help, I owe you one at BSDcon! I'll look forward to it! > Ohh, and btw: do I need to say that I'm dying to know what the heck > you are doing with that box ? :-) Making the room a good bit warmer, that's for sure. :-) First I should mention for the benefit of those listening in that it isn't something I can release publicly, and it will probably never be open source. It's a simulated web client and web server, running inside the kernel. It's good for load-testing and performance-testing many kinds of network devices. With two 1-GHz PIII boxes (one acting as the client and the other acting as the server) it can generate around 50000 (actually I think it's more than that) full web sessions per second. Also, you can dial in any rate you want, and it will generate that rate very precisely. Lots of fun! John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message