Sunday, February 10, 2008

Testing the Network Speed: The netcat way

Testing your core network speed is essential to describe possible bottlenecks.

Here is practical way to do this;

nc is a golden linux tool which stands for netcat.
On the receiver side;
# nc -l 10.129.50.45 -p6666 > /dev/null

10.129.50.45 is the listened IP address.


On the transmitter side;
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1024 | nc 10.129.50.45 6666

At the end of pumping of the zeros "dd" shows total used time and bw/s values.
If not, you can use the "time" command before the dd to do this.

Intel stretches HPC dev tools across chubby clusters

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