[netperf-talk] Inter-burst time

[Rick Jones]

TC Carrington wrote:
> I recently enabled intervals with the ./configure --enable-intervals 
> call and added -DINTERVALS to the CFlags section of the makefile and 
> recompiled after running a make clean. The problem I'm having is I when 
> I use the -w global option on the TCP_STREAM test I get the same 
> throughputs, at least within error, regardlesss of how large or small I 
> set the inter-burst time to. It lets me run the test, adds ":interval" 
> to the end, and runs through without error. When I enable debugging 
> everything looks good except the signal catcher:
> 
> [root at ralph ~]# netperf -H 192.168.100.13 -d -w 100


You need to set a burst size (number of sends before waiting) with a -b option. 
The default is "0" which means no waiting regardless of the -w parm.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones