Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-28 Thread Hal Murray
The most I've seen a single netperf *single-byte* burst-mode test do is on the order of 350K transactions per second, and that is when netperf is bound to a core other than the one taking interrupts from the NIC to get some additional parallelism. In a netperf TCP_RR test, netperf does virutally

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Jones
Hal Murray hal-use...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net wrote: The most I've seen a single netperf *single-byte* burst-mode test do is on the order of 350K transactions per second, and that is when netperf is bound to a core other than the one taking interrupts from the NIC to get some

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Rick Jones wrote: Even if you have a test program that blasts lots of packets, that won't mimmic real traffic. It's bypassing all the setup of ARP and router slots. I'm not quite sure if I'm parsing that accurately - yes, such a single-connection test

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-27 Thread R C
with this file? Thanks for all your help. From: Dave Hart h...@ntp.org To: questions@lists.ntp.org Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 2:24:37 PM Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 19:40 UTC, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-27 Thread Rick Jones
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: However, if they did, the timing is likely to be dominated by ethernet collision back-offs. Collision back-offs? Perhaps - on ancient, hubbed, 100BT or 10BT networks, but virtually nowhere else :) rick jones -- denial, anger, bargaining,

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-27 Thread Rick Jones
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: The dominant rate limiter is the network-- even if you have a 1Gb network-- switches, interrupts, etc. Including a 14 byte Ethernet header, an NTP query/response appears to be 80 bytes or 640 bits. The 1GbE interframe gap is allowed to be as low as 64

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread R C
:55:36 AM Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:23 AM, R C wrote: I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? Thanks in advance for your help. The ntpd sources come

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread David Woolley
R C wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your prompt response. My main intension of this scalability testing is to find out 1. how long it takes for the ntpd server to serve 100,000 clients. Why would they all try to hit it at the same time? However, if they did, the timing is likely to be

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread unruh
On 2010-09-26, R C rc_w...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your prompt response. My main intension of this scalability testing is to find out 1. how long it takes for the ntpd server to serve 100,000 clients. HOwever long it takes those clients to send the requests. 2. What is the

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread R C
Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 9:06:42 AM Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance R C wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your prompt response. My main intension of this scalability testing is to find out 1. how long it takes for the ntpd server to serve 100,000 clients. Why would they all

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread R C
, September 26, 2010 9:10:39 AM Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance On 09/26/2010 02:05 AM, R C wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your prompt response. My main intension of this scalability testing is to find out 1. how long it takes for the ntpd server to serve 100,000 clients. 2

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:23:11AM -0700, R C wrote: I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? Thanks in advance for your help. Not as good as would be a special ntp client, but you can generate ntp

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread unruh
On 2010-09-26, R C rc_w...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi everyone, Thank you for your responses. Sorry about the ambiguity. 1. Atleast if not a 100,000 all at a time, say 1 client requests at a time hitting the server. They cannot. All network cards are serial devices. They cannot deliver

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2010-09-26, R C rc_w...@yahoo.com wrote: 1. Can you please tell me how to use the tool ntpload.c. 2. Is there an executable to use it? 3. What does it do exactly? Is this a home-work assignment? -- Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

[ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-25 Thread R C
Hi, I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? Thanks in advance for your help. Thanks, RC. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:23 AM, R C wrote: I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? Thanks in advance for your help. The ntpd sources come with ntpdate; use ntpdate -q in a shell script loop to issue

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-25 Thread unruh
On 2010-09-24, R C rc_w...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? Thanks in advance for your help. I think you need to tell us more about exactly what you want to do and why.

Re: [ntp:questions] Test ntpd performance

2010-09-25 Thread Dave Hart
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:23 PM, R C rc_w...@yahoo.com wrote: I want to test the performance of the ntpd server. Are there any free/open source ntp clients that measure the server scalability? I don't know of any such scalability-testing client software, but I can tell you ntpd scalability is