From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Sat 30 Jun 2001 - 15:57:11 IST
I've got a webserver NATted behind a firewall (all on 100MB/sec
ethernet). Anyone got a good idea how to get an idea of the throughput of
the firewall ? I made a 500MB file, did:
time wget -q http://webserver/madbigfile.bin -O /dev/null
and the best I could get out of it was 9.1 seconds - 4.4MB/sec, which
seems a bit low - is the best I could expect, or am I doing something
wrong ? I did a for loop in PHP, that just echoed a line of text, and it
was even slower, so it looks like the networking code is the bottleneck,
not apache. Is there a nice page full of kernel tweaks for upping network
performance ?
Kate
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