Network Performance and Stress Testing

dale sykora dalesyk at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 17:23:41 UTC 2005


You might want to look at iptraf. Also, I used to use software (don't
remember the name) that runs on both ends such that you tell one end to
source x bytes of data and the other end to sink and measure thruput. If I
stumble upon the name, I'll repost.


On 10/11/05, Brian D. McGrew <brian at visionpro.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning:
>
> Let's say I've got two Dell 1800 servers and each one of these servers
> has dual gigabit Ethernet connections. The first connection on each
> server is connected to the corporate network at 100MB. The second
> connection is a cross-over between the two machines running at 1GB. One
> machine is running Fedora Core 3 and the other is running Redhat
> Enterprise Linux 3.
>
> I need to stress test and performance test this configuration by
> continuously moving large files back and forth under various processor
> loads for a given length of time and be able to show the results when
> completed.
>
> What are the best practices for the situation? Is there open source
> software out there to accomplish this or do I need to write something?
> I can think of a couple of shell script configurations to do this but
> I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew ( brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com )
> ---
> > Those of you who think you know it all,
> Really annoy those of us who do.
>
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