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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!sgigate.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 13 Jul 1996 19:10:22 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4s8sau$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E106AF.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rvmtf$ven@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E3D9E2.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s5bl2$qpg@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E664EB.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> <4s67sk$oa9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E6B8AB.3E6C@indy.celebration.net> <4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7BD6F.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45093 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4024 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23480 : > Whine, whine, whine. I'm getting pretty sick of it. You use my tools, : > complaining all the way, and offer nothing in return. If you want something : > better, you're welcome to write it. Otherwise, you're just a whiner. : > : I have written benchmarks better than yours for my purposes. In fact : they measure more real world numbers. Yours are good for initial : no-scaled checks. I don't release them, but suffice it to say, I am : happy with the results. Vaporware, John. If you really have them, put together a benchmark suite. What, it isn't easy? It takes time? You have to make it portable? You have to test it on a bunch of different platforms? You have to gather a bunch of data? You have to let people tell you you did it wrong? You can't handle that? : If all that was claimed was: Linux's ZERO LOAD LATENCY appears to be faster : than *BSD now. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PROBLEM. That statement would appear : have great integrity considering THE FACT that the only measurement results : that were quoted were ZERO LOAD LATENCY... Umm, John, you're the only person that interpreted the results in the way that gives you heartburn. Perhaps you want to show me the lat_tcp man page and point out where it says that this is a throughput, loading, or anything other than a single threaded latency benchmark? Can't find it? How about the news posting where someone said that lat_tcp is the killer throughput benchmark? Or a scaling benchmark? Can't find that either? It kind of looks to me like you just wanted to vent. That's cool, but don't blame your frustration on anything but yourself. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804