Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:30:57 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [BETA] First test release of Tigon3 driver |
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Thomas Langås wrote: > > David S. Miller: > > At this point I'm mostly interested in if it works at all :-) > > If the answer is yes, tell me that and then you can feel > > free to experiment with jumbo frames et al. to discover > > other bugs in the driver :-) > > Just tested with MTU set at 1500 for now, but it seems to work fine, did a > netcat between two boxes on the same switch and got around 80MB/sec. > > Any programs or anything that could do a serious stresstest? (Both hosts > are Dell PowerEdge 2550, RedHat Linux 7.2).
I've had good luck with an infinite loop on sendto(). Can easily saturate a link, and depending on the receiving host, can essentially DOS the machine.
As an example, a Dell OptiPlex GX1 running 2.4.17 becomes completely unusable when receiving 80000 packets/sec.
Chris
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