More interesting NetBench anomalies ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Andrew Theurer wrote:

> 
> > 3. The report claims 163.471 MBytes of data Transferred, yet a full
> > capture is larger than 334 MBytes (that capture dropped a few frames).
> 
> Generally my Netbench reported peak throughput is about 10-15% lower than
> what I see in my sar report.  The only thing that comes to mind is that the
> numbers NetBench reports are based on file data, and not all network data
> (header, etc), but I can't see how this would be 2x difference.  I would
> generally expect whatever Netbench reports, the capture would be smaller due
> to client caching.

I hope to find out today by asking Samba's profiling stuff how many reads 
and writes were seen and how many bytes were read and written.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com