Am 27.02.2014 00:45, schrieb Antti Kantee: > On 26/02/14 16:15, Martin Unzner wrote: >>> But speaking of netperf, the standard network benchmarking tools are >>> something that is asked about a decent amount. Would you care to write >>> a howto on how you use netperf, perhaps on the wiki? >> I am not sure if my experience helps -- the average Rump user would >> probably want to use rumprun and thus port the whole of netperf, while I >> more or less only replaced the AF_INET-socket related syscalls in the >> netperf netserver source code, added an init function and ran it on >> Linux. If you think that is a valid use case, please tell me, then I >> could try and assemble a patchset (I do not want to get involved in any >> kind of legal issues with HP, thus no complete source tree) and document >> it somewhere, also in the wiki if you like. > They might or might not want to use rumprun. In any case, the procedure > for that hasn't yet been documented either, nor is it there a clear > understanding how to compile netperf in the way that rumprun requires. > And who knows what signals may lurk there ... > > I think if someone wants to run netperf (or ttcp or whatever) tomorrow > instead of next month, doing it your way is the current best hope. > >> This could take a while, >> though (worst case: end of May), because I still have to finish my >> Diploma thesis. > No sweat. In open source everything takes exactly until the person > doing it has time ;) > > Though, if at all relevant to your thesis, you could consider flipping > the whole thing to your advantage: include the document as an appendix > for the purpose of making that part of your experimentation repeatable. That sounds good, thanks for the advice! Bearing that in mind, I might get to it earlier.
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