Check out the thread http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week16/0345.html ... ...
Dan Kegel
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Apr 17, 2001 9:47 pm
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... Thanks for the pointer! I hadn't considered the problem of actually verifying that the data returned was correct. I'll keep that in mind! In my basic...
Shane Kerr
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Apr 17, 2001 10:47 pm
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Hello I'm a new user and I have problem running dkftpbench I got the following error message: warning: max_byptes_per_sec 3500 <elcock_hert()10000; clamping to...
tracy_pham@...
Apr 26, 2001 4:02 am
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... That means that the ftp connection couldn't be established. The '2' is a value from errno.h. What operating system are you using? Also, try applying the...
Dan Kegel
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Apr 26, 2001 4:38 pm
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Hi all, I'm a new member of this list. I've faced an error with dkftpbench for benching our server: $ ./dkftpbench -hrostam -n300 -t600 -fx10k.dat -v ... ...
Hamid Reza Shahriari
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Apr 29, 2001 12:13 pm
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... I think this is saying that dkftpbench connected but got no response to the GET command in five seconds. A few questions: 1. how fast is the link between...
Dan Kegel
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Apr 29, 2001 3:53 pm
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... 100 MB/S ... I use a firewall in transparent mode on special OS between dkftpbench and wu-ftp. ... Unfortunatelly firewall is not free and it is in...
Hamid Reza Shahriari
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May 8, 2001 3:47 pm
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... OK, the firewall is running a special OS. What OS is the server running? What OS is the client running? ... Still looks like ftpbench is timing out on a...
Dan Kegel
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May 8, 2001 5:24 pm
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Dear Dan, The problem was solved. There was a bug in our ftp proxy of firewall. It was stalled in some steps of protocol. The dkftpbench helped us to find this...
Hamid Reza Shahriari
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May 15, 2001 7:22 am
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Hamid, thanks for letting me know dkftpbench helped! - Dan...
Dan Kegel
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May 15, 2001 10:53 am
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FTP Bencharoos, I don't know if everybody has already seen this or not, but the following article on benchmarking various OS's is somewhat interesting in the...
Shane Kerr
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Jun 21, 2001 11:53 am
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... I read the article, and got turned off by their incorrect terminology and by the fact that they ignored things like Solaris's /dev/poll, Linux's realtime...
Dan Kegel
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Jun 21, 2001 5:13 pm
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... Hi Maryam, my code currently does only ftp, but I've been considering bringing it up to date and adding http and smtp support as well, and maybe banging...
Dan Kegel
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Aug 21, 2001 4:25 pm
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Somehow I never got around to making dkftpbench work under red hat 7.1 (which has a pickier compiler and a few .h files in different spots). Thanks to Nimesh...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 5, 2001 5:23 am
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That's a good idea. I can easily do that. How would you like to specify the addresses? As a file, with one numerical IP address per line, or with some sort...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 6, 2001 2:44 am
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... I'm not sure what this means. I assume we're talking 500K simultaneous connections.... Since port addresses are 16-bits, there are only 65536 on a single...
Shane Kerr
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Sep 6, 2001 6:56 am
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... It's much easier than that. Just configure multiple ip addresses on the client box, then modify the client program to cycle through the addresses. That's...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 6, 2001 4:26 pm
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... Oh yeah. Nevermind. :) -- Shane Carpe Diem...
Shane Kerr
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Sep 6, 2001 7:36 pm
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Nimesh wrote to request a change in dkftpbench to support multiple IP addresses on the client, to increase the number of (local port, local ip adr) tuples ...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 8, 2001 6:05 pm
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... First draft is done but not well-tested (and a bit ugly); it's http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/dkftpbench-0.25.tar.gz dkftpbench is now hardwired to use...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 8, 2001 11:40 pm
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... Uploaded second draft of Poller rewrite. It's no longer as ugly. In fact, integrating Poller cleaned things up a bit. The code is no longer O(N) anywhere...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 10, 2001 4:56 am
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I updated dkftpbench to actually work with Poller_sigio, I think. (Had to juggle things around a bit. one-shot notification methods like Linux's sigio are a...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 11, 2001 4:01 pm
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... I did notice a few interesting things: running both wu-ftpd and dkftpbench on the same system and trying to do 400 users at 1000 bytes/sec each gets you...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 11, 2001 6:17 pm
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Spent some time running dkftpbench with sigio through its paces. Found that running dkftpbench and wu-ftpd on same system, and trying to handle 500 users, is a...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 12, 2001 4:51 am
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Poller_sigio had a bug in how it fell back to poll() on SIGIO. Poller_select had a silly bug setting the timeout. These are fixed, and I can now get up to 3000...
Dan Kegel
dank@...
Sep 13, 2001 12:58 am
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Try making this change to bench.cc: 284c292 < if (err && (err != EINTR)) { ... I simplified that section recently, and evidently introduced a...
Dan Kegel
dank@...
Sep 20, 2001 3:14 pm
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0.31 should fix a boneheaded mistake that kept 0.30 from working except under extreme load. In 0.32 I hope to add an option, -a, to detect and use all local...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 21, 2001 3:48 pm
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... They can indeed. One tricky part is that the buffer length parameter for this interface is the number of bytes, not the number of ifreq structures...
Shane Kerr
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Sep 22, 2001 8:13 am
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... Uh, there wasn't, but there is now. Version 0.33 adds a new -B flag which lets you set the threshold; say -B1 to set the min to 1 byte/sec, which just...
Dan Kegel
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Sep 24, 2001 5:19 am
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At Nimesh's request, I added a -a option to use all the local ip addresses (except localhost). If you use -a, it will manage the ephemeral port range by...