[zeromq-dev] perf/throughput tests calculates bandwith wrong

[A. Mark]

Would you share the basic hardware and setup of the 10GE you are testing on?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:41 AM, A. Mark <gougolith at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Meant to write:
>
> should be at least:
>
> throughput = (unsigned long)((double) message_count / (double) elapsed *
> (double)( 1024*1024));
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:39 AM, A. Mark <gougolith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've done some extensive benchmarks using local_thr and remote and tcp in
>> the last couple of months and found some odd things. This line is slightly
>> wrong for the throughput calculation ( apart from the overflow):
>>
>>
>> throughput = (unsigned long)((double) message_count / (double) elapsed *
>> 1000000);
>>
>> should be at least:
>>
>> throughput = (unsigned long)((double) message_count / (double) elapsed *
>> double( 1024*1024));
>>
>> There are few more things to consider too that will effect performance,
>> ZMQ_RCVBUF/ZMQ_SNDBUF/ZMQ_SNDHWM/ZMQ_RCVHWM.
>> Also since ZMQ does buffering on the background :
>> ZMQ_DELAY_ATTACH_ON_CONNECT can throw off your time measurement. With large
>> buffers and many messages the programs will actually crash, as ZMQ runs out
>> of memory queueing messages, I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior,
>> but setting the HWMs  prevents that problem.
>>
>> I had posted the corrections and improvements for the two programs
>> earlier to the mail list. Here is the improved versions of the local_thr
>> and remote_thr again if you care to try some other options. There is also
>> an mt version of the server.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Erik Hugne <erik.hugne at ericsson.com>wrote:
>>
>>> So, i now realize that the bw figures are actually in _megabit_..
>>> and shortly after sending, obviously i found the problem.
>>>
>>> As i posted on IRC some moments ago:
>>> [13:33] <haze_> it's an overflow on this line
>>> [13:33] <haze_> throughput = (unsigned long)((double) message_count /
>>> (double)
>>>  elapsed * 1000000);
>>> [13:33] <haze_> in local_thr
>>> [13:33] <haze_> more specifically, (double) elapsed*1000000
>>>
>>>
>>> //E
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> zeromq-dev mailing list
>>> zeromq-dev at lists.zeromq.org
>>> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/attachments/20130225/b9cc5e25/attachment.htm>