Re: Debugging Network Performance
From: Mark Wisner <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-04 11:12:40
Allen, Netperf can give you a vary detailed report about network performance. If you think your problem is related to network hardware problems, look at the errors listed in "ifconfig". This should tell you if you are getting bad packets or dropping packets. If you think it is a kernel problem some benchmarks may help you narrow down the problem. Networks are pretty fluid and sometimes hard to get reproducible results. When I try to determine driver/kernel network perfomance I try to use an isolated network where I have control over all traffic or I use test hardware such as IXIA or Smartbits. Mark K. Wisner Advisory Software Engineer IBM Microelectronics 3039 Cornwallis Rd RTP, NC 27709 Tel. 919-254-7191 Fax 919-543-7575 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/