Analysing traces for performance bottlenecks

Tue Jul 15 19:03:25 UTC 2008

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:34 +0100
> From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists at spacething.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any packages (or Wireshark options that I've missed) that can 
> follow a TCP stream and determine the limiting factor on throughput. E.g 
> Latency, packet loss, out of sequence packets, window size, or even just 
> the senders rate onto the wire. I know how to analyse a trace by hand 
> for performance issues, but it's relatively time consuming.
> 
> Googling for variations on "Analyse TCP stream limit throughput" didn't 
> find anything.

tcptrace is old and pretty basic, but it can provide a LOT if
information. Combined with xplot, the graphs often point to the exact
nature of a TCP problem, but you need a really good understanding of TCP
to figure anything out.
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