[Voyage-linux] Re: Re: [Madwifi-devel] Real throughput tests at 4.4km p2p link

[Jeff Gibson]

Just an option: If you have one of the boards with extra ram that makes the
/dev/shm partition, you could save the files there and have as fast of
writing capabilities as the RAM.  Hope this helps with your testing.

-Jeff


On 4/21/06, voyage-linux-request at list.voyage.hk <
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>   1. Re: [Madwifi-devel] Real throughput tests at 4.4km        p2p link
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> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:49:25 +0200 (MEST)
> From: "Beat Meier" <Beat.Meier at gmx.ch>
> Subject: [Voyage-linux] Re: [Madwifi-devel] Real throughput tests at
>        4.4km   p2p link
> To: Punky <punkytse at gmail.com>
> Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk, madwifi-users at lists.sourceforge.net,
>        madwifi-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
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> unky wrote:
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> >Hi Beat,
> >
> >Did you use vmstat or others in your test to see if the WRAP boxes are
> >CPU bound (i.e. 0% CPU idle)?  I have experience that runing iperf
> >client and server would consume all your CPU power.  So in my
> >performance test, I don't run iperf on the measured boxed anymore.
> >Instead, I use wget to remote download a big file from another local
> >server.
> >
> >
> I have about 50% cpu load
> I have also done the test with connected pc with iperf and scp but with a
> ftp, scp, wget
> the limiting factor is the disk (even worse a cf)! I know the new disk are
> fast but
> do a test with an old disk ...
> For bandwidth test you should really use iperf or something similar.
> BTW: No difference in tests on wrap or with connected pc
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> Greetings
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> Beat
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