On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Nick Feamster wrote: > Srikanth, Walter --- please chime in. > > Dave has a point here about the possibility of stopping QoS during testing. > > Thoughts? > Well, actually, doing this this way, would get some GREAT data from the field that simply doesn't exist right now... /etc/init.d/qos stop do the test (which I assume includes shaperprobe and a bandwidth test) /etc/init.d/qos start do the bandwidth test I've also been collecting data via usb sticks on these puppies. For slow connections (less than 2MB/sec) the writes to stick and the dump do not seem to permute the results much. > > -Nick > > > On May 21, 2011, at 12:11 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > And your customer experience will be poor, and you will be measuring > tcp/ip malfunctioning rather than working properly. > > > > How hard would it be for your scripts, when doing bandwidth testing, to > do a > > > > /etc/init.d/qos stop > > do the test > > /etc/init.d/qos start > > > > When do they do bandwidth testing? What script does it? > > -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com