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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:48:53 -0700
From:      Jason Wolfe <j@nitrology.com>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is best TCP throughput benchmarking tool?
Message-ID:  <20181022074853.GA31987@nitrology.com>
In-Reply-To: <926143031.20181020175438@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <eaf633d0-beb7-d806-7d2e-bfec0beb1e47@FreeBSD.org> <650aa1c7-26db-f463-cb59-8dfe1886c764@grosbein.net> <1743704969.20181019235034@serebryakov.spb.ru> <04f00191-78b8-6c9f-4b6b-fb11d10f91ea@grosbein.net> <876446461.20181020020328@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78b23b34-7c47-30a1-4386-405ec90fa76d@grosbein.net> <926143031.20181020175438@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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Lev Serebryakov wrote on Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 05:54:38PM +0300:
> Hello Eugene,
> 
> Saturday, October 20, 2018, 2:23:29 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > You do not need to micro-control this. The wrk provides you with nice stats
> > plus you have counters of "systat -ifstat 1" during long test.
> 
> >>  All these tools ? wrk, nginx ? are optimized for many concurrent
> >> connections on powerful hardware and looks like overkill to test one
> >> connection bandwidth on Atom CPU.
> > You can choose number of concurrent connections yourself while running wrk.
>  One. I need one :-)
> 
> >>  BTW, how to configure nginx to server 16G+ file without any disk access?
> >> One big hole on tmpfs? :)
> > You do not need large disk file in case of wrk+nginx. Make small-sized tmpfs
> > with single several megabytes-sized file, and that's all.
>  I want to run multi-minute streams. On gigabit network. Without any time
> spent on connections, requests, TCP windows scaling, etc. As I said, it is
> complete opposite to what nginx+wrk does well.

nginx will happily serve sparse files:

# touch internets.bff; time truncate -s 30T internets.bff; ls -ls
# internets.bff

real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

224 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32985348833280 Oct 22 00:37 internets.bff


HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32985348833280 (30T) [application/octet-stream]

Jason



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