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From: Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:49:33
Message-Id: CAGJrxsQzeH4pifrTZjR5h+h7msFOmepEN2Xex4SVeZSWrJeSfg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed by William Kenworthy
1 On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:40 PM William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
2 wrote:
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6 > Rsync is not a good tool for measuring throughput as its optimisations
7 > are problematic - and this can show up when comparing local to remote
8 > tests.
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11 > Yup. A better option is to use something like net-misc/iperf. That will
12 give you a much better idea of the raw network performance. It's also
13 available on Windows so you can use it to test Linux<->Windows and
14 Windows<->Windows speeds as well as Linux<->Linux speeds.
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