Benchmarking
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Some pointers in this Windows/Linux File Sharing performance
What if I want to test from Linux...? OSX? BSD?
This could probably be portable: | NAs Performance Tester (C#)
Some people will be more inclined towards this: ftp://samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README
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What I'd like to see in such testing would be at least:
- Network conditions (e.g. "this script has detected a connection of 1Gbit with Jumbo Frames capability")
- Testing for transferring a few thousand small files, as well as sustained throughput of a large file