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    September 2, 2007: Simple Network Performance Test

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    The document describes how to use the FTP command to perform a simple network performance test between two systems. By piping the dd command to generate a large file from /dev/zero as input and sending it to /dev/null as output on the remote system, it allows transferring a big file without using disk I/O or caching the file in memory locally. This helps test the network performance between systems without other potential bottlenecks.

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    The document describes how to use the FTP command to perform a simple network performance test between two systems. By piping the dd command to generate a large file from /dev/zero as input and sending it to /dev/null as output on the remote system, it allows transferring a big file without using disk I/O or caching the file in memory locally. This helps test the network performance between systems without other potential bottlenecks.

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    September 2, 2007

    Simple Network Performance Test


    To do a simple and quick network performance test the ftp command can be used. FTP on Linux and other Unix systems allows you to pass shell commands to the ftp client by using the pipe symbol | as the first character of the file name. With this feature you can send a very large file to a remote host using /dev/zero as input and /dev/null as output. Example:
    ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100" /dev/null

    This command transfers a large file without involving the disk and without having to cache the file in memory. If you use a large file on a disk it might become a bottleneck. In this example, |dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 becomes the input file. Since a dd command without the of= paramater prints the content of the file to standard output (stdout), the ftp client can read the output and pass it on to the remote file which is /dev/null on the remote host.
    Filed under: Linux, Networking werner @ 7:15 pm

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