RE: Iperf 2.0.3 released

[Bob J. <bje...@ge...>]

Is it possible to upgrade my win32 PC without compiling?  I can't seem
to find a 2.0.3 executable to download.

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[mailto:own...@da...] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:26 AM
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Subject: Re: Iperf 2.0.3 released

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:44:25 -0700
Jon Dugan <jd...@x1...> wrote:

> I have just posted the Iperf 2.0.3 release on SourceForge.  You can
find it at:
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128336
> 
> Iperf 2.0.3 addresses several issues with Iperf.  This release is a
bug fix
> release and does not add any significant new functionality.
> 
> Bugs fixed in 2.0.3:
> 
> * Compilation issues on several platforms, notably Mac OS X and
Solaris
> * Excessive usage of CPU due to updating stats for every TCP packet
received
> * several minor nits, see the ChangeLog for details.
> 
> These changes come primarily from user patches and have only been
lightly
> tested.  Special thanks to Andrew Gallatin for his work on making the
current
> threading model better.
> 
> Jon
> 

You ignored several earlier patches for Linux to avoid eating lots of
CPU.
Also, the new option to choose congestion control.

Any new redesign should work to eliminate all usage of usleep()/yield()
etc,
and just use proper condition variables.