[j-nsp] Speed

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Tue Apr 9 03:39:01 EDT 2013


On (2013-04-08 23:29 +0200), Benny Amorsen wrote:

> UDP tests can be too generous on the network. A stream of perfectly
> spaced UDP packets will not show problems with microbursts. Almost all
> bulk transfer protocols are TCP, so it is important to test with TCP.

Microbursts will drop UDP has well, you'll experience this as packet loss
just the same, so you want to find value which has 0 packet loss. This same
number will indicate when TCP will start dropping (and reducing
window-size)
I see people often don't even look at packet loss numbers in iperf UDP
output

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