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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Subject: Re: care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance
	update)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:51:18 -0800
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
...
> And I would probably add the -c and -C options to have netperf report
> service demands.

For performance analysis, the service demand is often more interesting
than the absolute performance (which typically only varies a few Mb/s
for gigE NICs). I strongly encourage adding -c and -C.

grant