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		alinspired on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning What was an MTU in the test, how increasing it affects the results ? Reminds me how complicated it was to generate 40Gbit/sec of http traffic (with default MTU) to test F5 Bigip appliances, luckily TCL irules had `HTTP::retry`

talawahtech on May 21, 2021 [–]

The MTU is 9001 within the VPC, but the packets are less than 250 bytes so the MTU doesn't really come into play.

This test is more about packets/s than bytes/s.

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