[Spread-users] Tuning spread's performance for multicast

[Yair Amir]

Hi,

I know other people already answered that however, the
straight-forward way for you to check things is to run flooder.

I would note that you should get throughput of 40-80Mbits/sec
(about 1000 times faster than what you see) if you setup and use
Spread properly.

       Cheers,

       :) Yair.
       
On Friday, April 04, 2003 3:37 PM
Guy Argo gargo at looksmart.net wrote:

Guy> I'm using Spread (under python) for a file delivery system.
Guy> Basically I want to deliver several large files to multiple destinations
Guy> simultaneously preferably multicasting them to minimize
Guy> network usage. I attached my crude little python test bed.

Guy> I got it to work and tested it on two machines on the same
Guy> subnet and the performance was underwhelming.
Guy> I achieved sustained throughput of 40KB/s for data sent using
Guy> multicast with RELIABLE_MESS and FIFO_MESS protocols.
Guy> The machines both have 100 Mb cards.
Guy> FTP achieved 600 KB/s.
Guy> Do you have any recommendations about how to tune
Guy> Spread to increase the performance?

Guy> I couldn't find anything in the doc. :(

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