Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Re: OpenBSD benchmarks

>
> Make sure you do measure routing performance (packet source and sink on
> different machines) and not local stack performance
> (tcpbench/iperf/whatever
> on the machine itself).
>

One lesson I learned the hard way -- make sure your packet source
and sink machines are _faster_ than the system under test.

There's little point testing 2022-era CPU and NIC with 2010-era
desktops or laptops. It proves nothing. And confuses everyone.

(For your own definition of "_faster_", whether using UDP or TCP,
single machines or a cluster.)


John

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