With Windows I can - just too few people know how to optimise platforms these days (very sad).
Not tried this for a while but when win2012 came out if you tuned Windows (and you tuned Linux) especially on message size at higher bandwidths you'll see Linux has almost no performance advantage over Windows at all - they are neck and neck - Pretty sure drivers are to blame for poor Windows performance at lower bandwidths as I think the kernels are as good as each other- must try and convince a vendor to give me the driver code to see what could be done. (Oh and I'm no fan of either operating systems just to be clear :) Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Jan 2016, at 12:24, Charlie Boisseau <char...@fluency.net.uk> wrote: > > >>> On 16 Jan 2016, at 10:56, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Firstly because I'm trying to partition that all FEs should have Linux > >> Windows == bag of shite, one should just be able to plug in your laptop and >> smah out 1Gbps of traffic > > I firmly agree - Windows is useless and absolutely not fit for purpose for > testing, I would have all our engineers using Linux or Macs if I could. > However the fact that our corporate infrastructure is all Microsoft > predicates that field engineer laptops need to be Windows. I don’t have the > time to maintain the IT headache trying to push Linux or Mac platforms on > non-technical staff. Throughput testing is maybe 1 out of 10 apps they need, > with Outlook/Word/Excel high on the list. Our field engineers are all from a > telco background, so handheld testers are in their vocabulary. Linux and CLI > tools just aren’t. > > > > Charlie Boisseau > Fluency Communications > (Commsworld Ltd T/A) > > T: +44 (0) 330 121 1000 > Twitter: @charlieboisseau > www.fluency.net.uk > char...@fluency.net.uk > >
