On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 04:22:49AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Malcolm Turnbull wrote: > > > Simon, > > > > We've just ordered 4 servers and a gigabit switch to try and do exctly > > this kind of testing. > > If anyone has sugestions about a good/simple way of generating the > > load and graphing it that would be appreciated. > > I used netpipe back in 2000 > > http://www.austintek.com/LVS/performance/ > > The only problem with netpipe is that you can only setup one > connection at a time. This was fine to test the > director/realserver to its network limit, but you can't test > LVS running multiple connections
Hi Malcolm, Hi Joe, The last time that I did some micro-benchmarking of LVS I found Julian's lvs-test to be of use. http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/ More generally, when doing network benchmarking I find netperf to be very useful. Though most of my work using netperf has been for single streams, which is not particularly exciting in the context of LVS. The in-kernel packet generator is also interesting, though I don't recall ever getting particularly useful benchmarks out of using it. _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to lvs-users-requ...@linuxvirtualserver.org or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
