On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 02:25 +0200, Dominic Sacré wrote: > On Saturday, 6. May 2006 16:13, Lee Revell wrote: > > > I think that would be very useful. Exactly what kind of latencies > > > would this tool measure? > > > > Same as the existing CLI tools - it would start an RT thread that polls > > on the RTC, then tell the user to generate some load (switch windows, > > do a find /, pingflood the default gateway, whatever), then report back > > the maximum latency. > > Could you give me some links to these tools? I know I've seen something > like this, but I'm unable to find it...
I think Florian Schmidt's web site has the latest latency tester. > How do these tools relate to the latency tracer in the realtime kernel? > The tester is a userspace tool to measure low latency performance, the latency tracer is an in-kernel mechanism to determine which part of the kernel might be causing a latency problem. > Dominic >
