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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Just a thought, the Linux/BSD community might hugely benefit if someone with your deep knowledge released a set of perf test s

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Just a thought, the Linux/BSD community might hugely benefit if someone with your deep knowledge released a set of perf test scripts that anyone can run locally to regression test network perf. That way, the OSS community can integrate those perf test scripts into their commit/regression test pipeline.

toast0 8y ago
It would be great to have this kind of test, but often the regression test is going to be run the system on production load. Benchmarks have a way of testing something, but not quite what you need to test. The interactions between the whole system are important. For the Netflix boxes, they're pushing 40gbps+, not a lot of the community is going to be to be able to test that, unless they have fairly expensive networks laying around.
- drewg123 8y ago
  You're spot on. We don't really have good benchmarks that approximate our production traffic. BTW, 40Gb/s was so 2015. I have a box serving at 156Gb/s :)
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    As someone who grew up around Telex machines and current loop interfaces: consider me impressed!
  - toast0 8y ago
    > BTW, 40Gb/s was so 2015. I have a box serving at 156Gb/s :) That's right, I wanted to put 100+, but I wasn't totally sure. I stopped counting when you got way beyond the 20G connectivity on the servers I manage.
  - ksec 8y ago
    Oh mine! I record there was an article about pushing 100Gb/s not long ago and hitting memory bandwidth limit. Now it is 150Gb/s already ? Are you guys going to try something crazy like 400Gb/s ? At this rate Netflix could start selling their Appliance as another business.