Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:12:37 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad NFS/UDP performance Message-ID: <E1KjUur-0006DE-GA@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20080926221700.1C4AE4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080926221700.1C4AE4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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> --==_Exmh_1222467420_5817P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > David, > > You beat me to it. > > Danny, read the iperf man page: > -b, --bandwidth n[KM] > set target bandwidth to n bits/sec (default 1 Mbit/sec). This > setting requires UDP (-u). > > The page needs updating, though. It should read "-b, --bandwidth > n[KMG]. It also does NOT require -u. If you use -b, UDP is assumed. I did RTFM(*), but when i tried it just wouldn't work, I tried today and it's actually working - so don't RTFM before coffee! btw, even though iperf sucks, netperf udp tends to bring the server down to it's knees. danny PS: * - i don't seem to have the iperf man, all I have is iperf -h
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