Re: FTP benchmark proposal

Andi Kleen (ak-uu@muc.de)
27 Jun 1999 23:26:09 +0200


lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
> with each of the "c" machines masquerading as a pile of clients. The
> reason for that is that we want to generate the real pcb lookup load
> on the server so it has to think that it is talking to 6000 clients.

The hard thing will be to simulate slow/timing out connections that occur over
the internet. Just low-latency local networking with no lost packets is easy.

So perhaps something like a NISTNET box is needed inbetween?

-Andi

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