gb spam wrote:
On 4/25/06, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
For a brute force check, you could transfer a
large number of bytes from a byte generator (/dev/zero?) to /dev/nul, and time it.
To transfer 1G
One one host run
nc -l -p 30000 > /dev/null
On the other host run
time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | nc \ first-hostname 30000
Depending on your version of dd it may or may not display a throughput, so you may have to calculate it yourself freom the time displayed
Am I right, that the throughput here is 1 Giga BYTES, which is 8 Giga bits? On a 1 Gigabit/s network, this then should ideally take about 8 seconds; right?
I do following:
master$ nc -l -p 30000 > /dev/null
slave$ /usr/bin/time -p dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M \ count=1024 | nc master 30000
which typically prints out:
real 16.20 user 0.00 sys 0.54
This means that I have effectively a network speed of about 0.5 Gigabits/sec (as it takes 16 seconds instead of the ideal 8 seconds).
Is my conclusion right?
Thanks, Rob.
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