Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:42:31 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance Message-ID: <hbhjas$sjk$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <0D9BF9F3-FDA1-4111-9E6C-733E1FD972F5@mac.com> References: <78DB4AE8EF5F4A1EBD3992D7404B2725@china.huawei.com> <b8592ed80910150512k6d334f89s3fa308a85e19da9e@mail.gmail.com> <4831593800614E6796A45F20BA4B818E@china.huawei.com> <001301ca4e23$b96e35b0$3322c10a@china.huawei.com> <001c01ca4e24$f10f6e70$3322c10a@china.huawei.com> <20091016075336.03eb17f2.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <000001ca4f3c$78dc3550$6501a8c0@china.huawei.com> <0D9BF9F3-FDA1-4111-9E6C-733E1FD972F5@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Steve-- > > On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Steve Dong wrote: >> If there's a better/lighter way to show these graphics, I'd like to know. > > Sure-- put 'em on a webserver somewhere, and put links to them in your > email to this mailing list. > > If you wanted to do even better than that, set up a simple webpage > describing what you are doing in your comparison, have a link to the > dmesg/boot output for each platform as a .txt file and a description of > any system tweaks & tuning, have a link that points to a description of > the test setup (ie, your ASCII diagram of the switch and 4 machines), > then your graphs, then the raw data (or links to it, depending). You > can then throw in netstat -s output, or NIC driver stats from sysctl, or > switch stats, etc-- anything else that adds useful context. > > There are a fair number of posts in the list archives which describe how > to benchmark reliably, and the people who are most likely to be making > code changes to FreeBSD also tend to like to know whether you've > collected enough data, in a controlled fashion, to have an idea as to > whether your measurements are reproducible. I'm not a purist, and I Also, the OP should take a look at some previous benchmarks and the link to benchmark advices here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkMatrix
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