Allo Martin! We tried a combination of large message sizes (up to 17000 bytes) and large number of message (1000, 5000, 10000) but the local_thr.exe did not finish and display the stats. Further investigation (Windows' perfmon tool and task manager) indicated that a large number of messages seem to be dropped at the remote_thr.exe side before reaching "wire". In our test setup, the two machines are directly connected together (i.e. no switches, no routers). With this setup, I would expect that all messages are sent and received assuming that two machines have similar CPU and network capacity.
We also tried this same test with two Windows Server 2003 based machines and a combination of Windows Server 2003 and XP machines (all Windows OS are 32-bit version). In all cases we obtained similar results as the original test on two XP machines. A quick code walkthrough and network cable test did not reveal anything suspicious. I assume that the values defined in the platform.hpp and config.hpp files are a good start (i.e. only change them when necessary). So, the hardware seems ok. The source code seems ok. The test setup seems ok. Could we have missed configuring a setting/flag/#ifdef/#define during the build process on Windows using MSVC2008 Express? Thanks. Christian Martin Sustrik <sustrik <at> 250bpm.com> writes: > > Allo! > > Use larger testsets. With 1700 bytes of data the results are not > relevant. Use 100,000 messages at least. > > Martin > > Baribeau, Christian wrote: > > Allo! > > > > This is our first attempt at using zeromq. We would like receive some > > feedback on what may be wrong with our setup and testing. > > > > We conducted the performance test on two Windows XP Pro SP3 machines > > (multi-core, 2 GHz, 2 G RAM, etc) directly connected together through > > their 1 Gbps NIC. > > > > For the performance testing, we used the local_thr.c and remote_thr.c > > from the perf directory in release 2.0.6 zeromq source tree downloaded > > from the web site. The libzmq library and both .c files were > > successfully built using the MSVC 2008 Express and the MSVC project file > > found in the source tree. No changes were made to the project settings. > > > > Here is a short list of the test results (stdout) from the local_thr.exe: > > > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 170 10 > > message size: 170 [B] > > message count: 10 > > mean throughput: 625000 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 850.000 [Mb/s] > > > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 170 100 > > message size: 170 [B] > > message count: 100 > > mean throughput: 309 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 0.420 [Mb/s] > > > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 170 1000 > > message size: 170 [B] > > message count: 1000 > > mean throughput: 201 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 0.273 [Mb/s] > > > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 170 2000 > > message size: 170 [B] > > message count: 2000 > > mean throughput: 201 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 0.273 [Mb/s] > > > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 1700 10 > > message size: 1700 [B] > > message count: 10 > > mean throughput: 24 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 0.326 [Mb/s] > > C:\Work\TestZeroMQ>local_thr.exe tcp://192.168.35.209:667 1700 100 > > message size: 1700 [B] > > message count: 100 > > mean throughput: 21 [msg/s] > > mean throughput: 0.286 [Mb/s] > > > > These results are not in line with the expected performance results > > found on the zeromq web site. > > > > Is this a known issue? > > > > Are we make a newbie mistake somewhere? > > > > Are their Windows specific build instructions/settings/issues we should > > know? > > > > Thank you > > > > Christian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > zeromq-dev mailing list > > zeromq-dev <at> lists.zeromq.org > > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev ________________________________ This e-mail from Ultra Electronics Holdings plc and any attachments to it are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you have received it in error please notify the sender and delete it from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. All communications may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational and/or security purposes. Please rely on your own virus checking as the sender cannot accept any liability for any damage arising from any bug or virus infection. Ultra Electronics Holdings plc is a company registered in England and Wales, registration number 2830397. The address of its registered office is 417 Bridport Road, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 8UA.
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