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3. The utility will automatically perform the tests in sequence. The client output
4. See the next section for information about interpreting the results of the tests.
Interpreting the results
The utility performs five foreground tests (Tests 1-5 below), and one background
test (Test 6 below). The example outputs below are from the client side. Each of the
first five tests below ran for 300 seconds (-t 300), while the last test monitored TCP
performance during that time.
Test 1: Latency
This test checks the nominal network link latency and packet loss. Example result:
Interpreting the results:
v The average round-trip-time (rtt) was 78.4ms and there was 0% packet loss.
v The round-trip-time in network topologies may vary, but should never exceed
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where server1_ip_address is one of the IP addresses to be tested for server1.
The default size of a buffer used for sending data is 1024KB. To override this
size to another value, for example 256KB, use the -l parameter as follows:
./pt_net_perf_util -c server1_ip_address -t 300 -l 256
Note: If server1 is a Windows system, use following command:
pt_net_perf_util.bat -c server1_ip_address -t 300 --win-server
where server1_ip_address is one of the IP addresses to be tested for server1.
The same buffer override command can also be used to change the size of the
buffer.
(server2 in the example below) will look similar to the following:
Note: In the sample output below the test ran for only 5 seconds instead of
300.
*** Latency
PING 9.5.53.33 (9.5.53.33) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 9.5.53.33 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.257/0.406/0.484/0.079 ms
*** Throughput - Default TCP
[ 3] 0.0- 5.0 sec 56.6 MBytes 94.8 Mbits/sec
*** Throughput - 1 TCP stream(s), 1MB send buffer
[ 3] 0.0- 5.0 sec 57.0 MBytes 95.0 Mbits/sec
*** Throughput - 16 TCP stream(s), 1MB send buffer
[SUM] 0.0- 5.8 sec 65.0 MBytes 94.3 Mbits/sec
*** Throughput - 127 TCP stream(s), 1MB send buffer
[SUM] 0.0-11.3 sec 127 MBytes 94.1 Mbits/sec
Number of TCP segments sent: 230536
Number of TCP retransmissions detected: 21 (0%)
Done.
*** Latency
PING 10.0.13.194 (10.0.13.194) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 10.0.13.194 ping statistics ---
120 packets transmitted, 120 received, 0% packet loss, time 119060ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 57.403/78.491/104.451/9.872 ms
200ms on WAN. Contact your network administrator if round-trip-time reports
more than 200ms on WAN or 6ms on LAN, as it may significantly decrease
throughput.