[Bloat] Measuring latency-under-load consistently

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 18:03:02 EST 2011


On 13 Mar, 2011, at 12:21 am, Fred Baker wrote:

> At the risk of sounding like someone mentioning a product, let me mention a product. This assumes, of course, that you're using Cisco equipment. But it allows you to measure delay (how long does it take to get from here to there), jitter (first derivative of delay/dt), and packet loss.

Ping does most of this, and is available on your actual computer.  A little post-processing of the output gives you jitter, if it doesn't supply that natively.

The point is, the existing tools don't typically measure latency *under load*.

 - Jonathan




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