2010/12/1 Usman S. Ansari <uans...@yahoo.com>:
>
> Marc, I am not sure what you mean by OS buffers.

When a send() system call returns the data has typically not been sent
yet but just been buffered for sending.

In case the iperf sender stops the stopwatch immediately after the
last send() call has returned then the throughput computation is too
optimistic, especially for short duration tests. But maybe iperf knows
better?

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