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by d0mine 1758 days ago
Unrelated: How do you measure the speedup of various your improvements in the web server you are working on e.g., what do you think about the SpeedUpTest protocol? https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00764454/file/Speedup-Test-Article-...
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I generally run nstat [0] and look for increases in network bandwidth, and/or decreases in CPU utilization and memory bandwidth. 380Gb/s is better than 240Gb/s :)

[0] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/plain/net-mgmt/nstat/pkg-desc...