On 7/20/05, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:04 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:23 am, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 00:32 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > - networking is another frequent source of latencies - it might make > > > > sense to add a workload doing lots of socket IO. (localhost might be > > > > enough, but not for everything) > > > > > > The Gnutella test? > > > > I've seen some massive latencies on mainline when throwing network loads > > from > > outside, but with my limited knowledge I haven't found a way to implement > > such a thing locally. I'll look at this gnutella test at some stage to see > > what it is and if I can adopt the load within interbench. Thanks for the > > suggestion. > > There isn't actually a test called "The Gnutella test" , but I think > Gnutella clients put lots of network load on a system (Lee was talking > about that not to long ago). I was thinking that type of load may have > been what Ingo was talking about. > If you want to generate a lot of network related interrupts, wouldn't a much simpler way to do that be a simple
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