Switch Performance.
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A couple of my team mates ( Fintan and Sean ) have posts that deal with
Linus deciding that
Performance testing is a good idea
and it should be done
for
Linux. ( I'm sure reading
the artical again he'll see it as a
Homer
Simpson
moment ,
D ooh ! maybe we should
test it !)
Sounds Silly ?
It seems that Linus may be ahead of some folks. We do a
lot, in fact, a hell of
a lot of network performance testing. Last week we blew a low end
100/1000Gb switch,
we replaced it with a new one, same make, model etc. yet there is a 10 %
difference
between it and the original on standard SPECweb99 benchmark. Ouch.
The same hardware now gets 10% less. maybe switch vendors could start
testing
their firmware too :)
Posted at
12:04PM Jun 02, 2005
by damienf in General |