Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> And, well, Grant's data is from a single test in a noisy >> environment where the time series graph shows that throughput is all over >> the place for the duration of the test; so it's hard to draw solid >> conclusions from (for instance, for the 5-stream test, the average >> throughput for 6 is 331 and 379 Mbps for the two repetitions, and for 7 >> it's 326 and 371 Mbps) . Unfortunately I don't have the same hardware >> used in this test, so I can't go verify it myself; so the only thing I >> can do is grumble about it here... :) > > It's a fair complaint and I agree with it. My counter argument is the > opposite is true too: most ideal benchmarks don't measure what most > users see. While the data wgong provided are way more noisy than I > like, my overall "confidence" in the "conclusion" I offered is still > positive. Right. I guess I would just prefer a slightly more comprehensive evaluation to base a 4x increase in buffer size on... -Toke
