Right, it doesn't "store" any data anywhere. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeroen Vanderauwera <jeroen....@gmail.com> To: Gary Gatten Cc: 'iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net' <iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wed Jun 23 08:14:32 2010 Subject: Re: [Iperf-users] How is the data generated, that is sent by iperf?
Thanks! Just to be sure: the iperf server just count the bytes/packets and discards the data immediately, right? On 23 Jun 2010, at 14:52, Gary Gatten wrote: > 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
