From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Sat 30 Jun 2001 - 23:09:06 IST
type in "ttcp" on rpmfind.net
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, John P. Looney wrote:
> 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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