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Re: [tlug] command-line web server speed "tester"?



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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:04:17PM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Sorry for a question with a possibly obvious answer but ...
> 
> I would like to find out what the maximum transfer speed is between one of 
> my servers and a remote web server.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a way or tool I can use to do this? It needs to be 
> command-line based since I only hvae command-line access to my server ... I 
> do know the locaton (URL) of some rather large files on the remote web 
> server if that helps.

time for i in [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]; do wget -qO /dev/null http://hostname/file; done

This will give you the time it takes to download 'file' ten times.
Change the number of '0's (or add any other legal characters) to how
many accesses you want to time.

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A. Sajjad Zaidi
System Administrator
Technology & Operations Div.
Digital Garage Inc.
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