On 3/25/10 6:19 PM, Gary Gatten wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've searched and read numerous posts on "high cpu for udp" issue.
> Following a pretty long string I found and applied the "Ingo Molnar"
> patch and it seemed to have work when iperf is RECEIVING traffic.
> However, no love when it's sending traffic.
> 
> So, I read some stuff that Gerrit Renker had a patch for the client
> side (Client.cpp?) ; doing away with gettimeofday() and delay_loop().
> I can't find this patch anywhere!  The link in this thread
> http://www.mail-archive.com/iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00028.html
> doesn't work directly - and it appears to be the same location as the
> "Ingo Molnar" patch - which isn't what I need.

Hi Gary,

I believe Gerrit merged that patch shortly after that thread - see:

http://iperf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/iperf/trunk/ChangeLog?view=log

> 2008-05-09 Gerrit Renker <gren...@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> * replace costly gettimeofday() with nanonsleep() See:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1940009&group_id=128336&atid=711373


> So, where is this magic patch?  I fetched the latest SVN and it's the
> same as the 2.0.4 distro.

You won't find it in the 2.0.4 tarball, only in trunk

http://iperf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/iperf?view=rev&revision=43

> I found one linux distro that has purportedly integrated these
> patches into their package called 2.0.4-4, but I have not reviewed
> that source yet...

2.0.4-4 in Fedora and EPEL do appear to contain the patches - see also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506884

Cheers,

-tt

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