@Pete @Toke just saw your responses. Thank you very much for the
explanation. I will give irtt and flent-git a try, and maybe build an aur
package for archlinux.

George

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Pete Heist <peteheist@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 29, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> (That was also informative for me about how netperf decides when to
> >> emit a data point…)
> >
> > In that case I can add that the stated reason for this way of doing
> > things is performance (i.e., emitting data points should not interfere
> > with transfer performance). This is mostly an issue on systems where
> > getting time is expensive; which is not the case on modern Linux
> > systems. But I'm not entirely sure that the optimisation only has
> > historical reasons; it may be that some systems supported by Netperf
> > still has this issue...
>
> Nice, I do respect the level of thought put into netperf…
>
>