Unless you specify it should read a file from disk, it just generates some bogus data and stores it in memory.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jeroen Vanderauwera <jeroen.vanderauw...@os3.nl> To: iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net <iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed Jun 23 04:00:08 2010 Subject: [Iperf-users] How is the data generated, that is sent by iperf? Hi *, I was wondering how the data generation is done in iperf. If for example, iperf pushes at a rate of 10Gb/s, where does that data comes from? Does it resides in memory first? Thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users
