@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…