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diff --git a/benchmarks/netperf/DESCR b/benchmarks/netperf/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9313c3ec9d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/benchmarks/netperf/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Netperf is a serious networking performance evaluation tool being +distributed under GPL by HP's Information Networks Division. +Testing is done using a pair of programs: `netserver' (the server) and +`netperf' (the measurement tool). + +Netperf allows control over a large number of test `variables'. +Some of these are: + + * specification of desired confidence levels for the tests + Netperf will warn the user if these levels were not achieved. + * filling send buffers with specified data (to beat compression + schemes) + * specification of send/recieve buffer alignments and data offsets + * requesting cpu utilization and service demand calculations + * specification of sizes of data to send + +Netperf can be used for measuring stream performance as well as +round-trip performance. + +This port of netperf has been configured to support: + + TCP and UDP via BSD sockets + Unix domain sockets |