On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:35:40 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> writes: > > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:02:44 -0800 > > Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Toke has been busy adding new features to the flent network test tool. > >> I consider it *almost* stable enough for a new release. Some of the > >> development has been focused on making the flent-gui much faster and > >> more responsive (as our data sets have got larger), others on > >> providing better default command line output, and there's other fixes > >> across the board, including QT5 support. > >> > >> In particular, I fear we've broken windows users of flent. I would > >> dearly like it if some more folk out there using flent could pull the > >> latest git version and see if there are any new bugs or regressions in > >> it, any of the the 87 tests, and the plotters, before freezing the > >> code for a new year's release. > >> > >> github: https://github.com/tohojo/flent > >> main site: https://flent.org/ > >> > >> While you are at it, please feel free to stress out any of the flent > >> servers as a target, give the new cake a shot and compare it against > >> htb+fq_codel or your aqm of choice, or fiddle with the new wifi code, > >> and share your data. tcp_nup, tcp_ndown, rrul, rrul_be remain the main > >> tests, but the square wave one is turning out interesting.... :) > >> > >> And if you have any feature requests or bugs to file, please get them > >> in soon to the github! > >> > >> We could also use better documentation and tutorials for use... some > >> more example scripts leveraging things like the cpu_stats and > >> qdisc_stats tools, and so on, > >> > >> Active public servers include: > >> > >> flent-freemont.bufferbloat.net > >> ( this is colocated with flent-bbr-west which has bbr on by default - an > >> interesting test might be testing both these servers at the same time > >> via the rtt_fair* tests from your location) > >> > >> flent-dallas.bufferbloat.net > >> flent-london.bufferbloat.net > >> flent-tokyo.bufferbloat.net > >> flent-newark.bufferbloat.net > >> > >> There are also netperf-west and netperf-east and netperf-eu and no > >> doubt a few others. > >> > >> We plan to add a few BBR enabled servers over the holidays. > >> > >> The changelog so far: > >> > >> > >> - Support PyQt5 in the GUI (and prefer it over PyQt4). If PyQt5 is not > >> found, fall back to PyQt4. > >> > >> > >> - Add new SummaryFormatter that outputs mean and median values for > >> each data series. This is the new default formatter, meaning that its > >> output will be shown after a test run if no other formatter (or plot) > >> is specified. > >> > >> - Support multiprocessing in the GUI. When loading several plots at > >> once, plotting will now be passed off to separate worker processes. > >> > >> This allows plotting to use all the available processors on the > >> machine, and speeds up loading of many plots tremendously (initial > >> load is sped up by an order of magnitude). This change also means that > >> re-plotting on config changes will be done dynamically in the > >> background, which makes the GUI more responsive. > >> > >> - Make text completely black in the default colour scheme. This > >> increases contrast, and helps legibility, especially on printed > >> figures. > >> > >> > >> - Some internal code changes: Port command line parser from the old > >> optparse class to the newer argparse, and fix a bunch of linter > >> > >> > > > > Has anyone automated or orchestrated flent? I would love to get several > > projects doing daily build flent runs. Both upstream kernel, net-next, > > and Intel Clear Linux has nightly build and test. > > Flent has a built-in batch mode that lets you automate running several > tests in a row including setup/teardown scripts etc... Is that what you > mean? > > -Toke That is start, was hoping someone had already done the nightly run kind of environment. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat