[zeromq-dev] Message sizes over 8978 and lower performance on Windows?

[Pieter Hintjens]

Keith,

How many messages are you sending?

-Pieter

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Keith Steiger <ksteiger at plexsys.com> wrote:
> I am running the supplied command-line throughput tools (local_thr and
> remote_thr) on two machines running Windows XP SP3, connected via 100 Mb/s
> Ethernet.  I’m testing various message sizes, doing 3 test runs at each
> message size, to see how tcp:// performance changes with message size.
> Everything goes as I expect, up until I try a message size of 10000.
> Confused, I start doing a binary search to find when things start being
> strange.
>
>
>
> Message size of 8978: average throughput of 64.714 Mb/s
>
> Message size of 8979: average throughput of 20.903 Mb/s
>
> Message size of 8980: average throughput of 15.590 Mb/s
>
> Message size of 8981: average throughput of 11.304 Mb/s
>
> Message size of 8982: average throughput of 8.743 Mb/s
>
> Message size of 8983: average throughput of 8.313 Mb/s
>
>
>
> The change slows, until at a message size of 8990 it’s mostly stabilized at
> about 4 Mb/s.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?  Neither CPU usage nor
> memory usage are unusual during these runs.  My only theory is that I’m
> hitting some boundary in the memory cache, but that doesn’t seem reasonable
> to me either.
>
>
>
> Random system details which probably aren’t relevant:
>
> 3 GHz Pentium 4 CPUs
>
> 512 MB memory each
>
> Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx gigabit Ethernet cards
>
> Connected via a Dell PowerConnect 2024 100 megabit switch
>
>
>
>     Keith.Steiger at plexsysipi.com
>     (who doesn’t understand why the router is only 100 megabit)
>
>
>
>
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