performance_testing

Tuning

Test Tools

There are a wide range of tools available for measuring network performance. Common ones are:

• great successor to ttcp.
• An improved version of the popular ttcp program.
• is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.)
• curl-loader application traffic generation (HTTP/S, FTP/S), loading and testing tool

Benchmarks

Also of interest are common network application benchmarks such as:

netbench Windows file server benchmark develped by and used by .
It has been discontinued but you can download the client .nfsstone NFS benchmark available at specweb Web server benchmark. Original is replaced by .
This is a commercial benchmark that costs $1200/$300 and has reporting restrictions.