On 03/12/2015 04:01 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
as netperf-wrapper has grown to include far more tests than netperf,
with quite a few more on their way, calling it this is increasingly
less appropriate:
A noted cynic wrote me privately last month, about netperf-wrapper:
'why don't you rename the friggin thing "bufferbloat" or
"bloattest" or something? Netperf-wrapper is a terrible name,
seemingly still whatever the programmer called it when he wrote the
first sketchy version, one step up from "foo"'
Hmm... we need a name with more foo, for sure, a better, more
descriptive name. Anyone got any ideas? Maybe run a contest somewhere?
Well, not that I dislike the "netperf" name :) but I'll toss a few
stripes onto the bikeshed:
*) bloat-probe
*) tortoise (ok, it is measuring bloat/latency not speed but still)
*) BMI (Bloat Measurement Index/Investigator/Illuminator ?-)
*) bloat-watcher
*) bloat-finder
*) bloated
*) blubber
*) Ahab
rick
One (technical) hope would be to find a good file extension for the
output, so it could be more easily parsed by browsers... but to heck
with that... a better name?
Toke had some ideas also:
- NQT - http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NQT - I especially like
"Not Quite There". nqt.org points to this: http://dyslexiafoundation.org/nqt/
- NetQual - http://www.qoesystems.com/NETQUAL.html
- NQ-tester - doesn't seem to be taken by anything obvious
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