no she said they were running up until a month ago
not that I expect her to really know anything
packet loss again
yeah, not just me i guess
haha
that was  lot pf people that left at once 5 hours ago
or so
i wonder if they were all using ipv6
i was getting awful packet loss on both v6 and v4
i wonder if it's that same annoying thing that was happening last week
well my graphs are fine :/
but my route goes over any2ix
mine is via level3
i've been dreaming about making a ping thingy
the plot is starting to come together
finding good hosts to monitor is the complex part
nothing's sticking out as terrible on hte monitoring that's on arp's network
i think my test hosts don't really test level3 well though
this packet loss stuff seems to start at approximately the same time each day it occurs
at like 6 hours ago?
yea, around there
i updated my smokeping with my newer targets list at least.
happens between 0830-0900 MDT
i'm never around then :)
yeah
do you have any mtr's or anything?
i can't MTR the arp box because of how severe the packet loss is
does it get unusable?
yep
i can't stay connected via ssh at all
can you setup a cron on the arp box to mtr out?
does packet loss start before it hits arps network?
no
aside from the naturally occurring deprioritization stuff
and it's lossy to arp's web site or other arp hosts at the same time as your vm?
haven't tested it
yeah i hate lboody deprioritisation :)
i guess i will next time this happens
what kvr are you on?
03
oh
yeah :)
well i'm monitoring that host
and i've only seen loss a couple of hours ago
my latency to the vm is jittery as all hell
+/- 12ms
even now?
yep
does it get unusable?i'm seeing 0.1 msec jitter or something
oops
i must have pressed up arrow a bit
yeh no jitter here
well a mtr now could be useful.
i usually use mtr -i=0.1 when i'm testing things :/
which shows up deprioritisation even more
err mtr -i0.1
but shows jitter easier
r1 drops packets with that frequency
ihttp://pastebin.com/F7SJ0GjA
wow
oh you traced to kvr03 :)
yeah
tracing to te vps now
it's largely the same
that was with -i1 ?
it could be a comcast issue
negative
it's not
oh
no packet loss to any other destination i've tested
ther's jitter to 96.120.1.73
buddy in FL was using the voice server and started noticing packet loss and let me know
but i mean between arp/comcast.
yes, because this is a residential cable connection
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'yes, because this is a residential cable connection'
but there' snot jitter to the hop prior of 689.86.182.122
but if 96.120.1.73 is a bras, that could be deprioritisation
it's the headend
so yes
yeah
mind sharing your ip? :)
73.26.90.138
it's worse to your ip
i'm still seeing no loss though
and it's just as bad from another provider
my latency to a box w/another provider is 30.1ms +/- .2ms
oh but it's fine from new zealand
well 3 msec jitter
or just under
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'or just under'
can you try tracing to 202.49.71.24 ?
that's my nz test server
i have less jitter to that destination than to arp
it's gtt->comcast for forward route
+/- 1.8ms
but i suspect it's forward path from youu that's the issue
yeah i know right
i imagine it's not going comcast->level3
but that doesn't explain why a bunch of other peoples' connections took a dump around 30 seconds after i started seeing packet loss
they may all be on comcast?
congestion could explain the jitter, but i couldn't care less about jitter
no, their sessions to freenode dumped
but yeah level3 may be having issues
oh hmm
on arp V6 IPs (i saw at least one with no rdns that was arp's prefix)
it's not even peak time though
true
the mind boggles :)
that's why i'm wondering if someone's machine is doing something at that time
because it happens right around that time each time
That's what she said!!
BryceBot: no
Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'because it happens right around that time each time'
yeah
like maybe saturating the link to upload or download something
i don't think kvr03 is having issues
and i don't think it's likely you're all on kvr03
and i don't think r1 is having issues
but s7 coudl be having issues
it doesn't really explain ipv6 screwing up thouguh
nope
actually it does
ntt is on s7
if it's a general issue
so, having looked at the users w/out cloaks who dropped when i mentioned packet loss, they were all connected via some arp svc
yeah
incoming skips s7
for ipv4 from r1
and my r1 based routes have been fine
but outgoing doesn't skip it
hey, milki jpalmer RandalSchwartz awyeah - are you guys connecting to IRC via an ARP VPS or dedi? if you're on a VPS, mind sharing which host?
but you wouldn't think someone would ddos at the asme time every day
right, that's why i'm thinking it's something saturating a link
or similar
and downloading at high speed over transit enough to saturate links isn't normal
offsite backup, something like that
yeah it could be that they're pushing backups onto arp
if they all happen to be on kvr03, that'd be great
haha
on a dedicated server
i really don't think kvr03 is at fault
but i'm happy to be wrong
oh hmm
kvr03 still goes throuugh s1
i was wondering if hitting a host directly would bypass s1
outbound route from the vm on kvr03 is via s7
and that may happen on peering but not transit
inbound route is via s7 too i think you'll find
it just responds with the link address to level3 probably
but it'll be the same host
it's only r1 that's assymetric
because s1 doesn't have full route table
oh, were you meaning tracing the host kvr03.arpnetworks.com indicates s1?
well i was meaning kvr03 may have more direct path than your vm
but nah it's the same path ish
yeah, looks the same
it's pretty symmetrical. much better than before level3 was turned on
yeah level3 isn't bad
That's what she said!!
used to be inbound from nlayer/mzima/whatever and outbound via ntt
nlayer would have been fine probably
and it was unusable during "peak" time for me
yeah, it was NTT that sucked
way way way oversubbed at comcast
nlayer's been having weird shit happen recently
nlayer/mzima/tinet/gtt
i can't tell which is which haha
yeah, hahah
as4436 is having issues
which is that
mzimtinettttttt
it says nlayer :/
yeah, some stuff still does
http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=4436
yeah so that's the legacy nlayer
the net formerly known as nlayer
what happened to mzima haha
i wonder how many routes comcast has
245
including ipv6
there's some non aggregated stuff in there too
i imagine they have more asn's, that's just AS7922
it kind of sucks that comcast are huge and don't peer :/
they started splitting up their network a bit more
based on market and stuff, tons of ASNs
ahh
probably a good thing
yeah
mkb isn't on comcast is he
That's what she said!!
as you said it doesn't seem like it's just a comcast issue
but prioritising making sure users connections well seems sensible
freenode on the other hand..
dropping on freenode could be anything
that said, i've been stable for a whil again
does this packet loss happen at toher times than 7:30 to 8:00 MDT?
it has before, yes
it happened a ton last week (i think it was last week)
but atm i mean
yeh i remember that
well, it hasn't happened since last week
ahh
today's the first day. the time when it occurred in the past started at 0830-0900 MDT and then would occur again throughout the day
that gave me loss though
this one didn't give me loss
also kvr03's reoccuring issues in the past got dealt with
the specific to kvr03 issues
which was fixed about 10 days ago
but there was the issue efecting everyone around then too
and the effecting everyone was never determined the cause of i think
borrowing smokeping data from acf_ - http://kremvax.acfsys.net/smokeping.cgi?epoch_start=1426863600;hierarchy=;epoch_end=1426888048;target=Remote.arpnet-lsanca;displaymode=n;start=2015-03-20%2008%3A00;end=now;Generate%21=Generate%21
it's on there
ahh i see
0750 PDT 0850 MDT
it's level3 outbound
to ec2
i wonder if it's level3 having issues
i think this is local though
microsecond ping time
on that graph, avg is .688ms
oh
nah his smokeping is weird
the top is to arpnetworks.com
but the last 30 hours is to ec2.acfsys.net
yeah, from the local box
second is from ec2
it's the second that's having issues thoguh
the graph i linked, top part, showed 30+% packet loss to arpnetworks.com from within the network
for a period of 10 mins
oh the link didn't work
oh
i dununo why
weird
it wa so long, and it didn't make sense why
ok, well set the time today (03/20/2015) and 0700 as the starting time
to now
http://i.imgur.com/Z5WZ0y4.png as an alternative
oh that's better
mine was set to 08:00
yeah
and it was ll grreen :/
that weird little blip is there, even on arp>arp stuff
you're so right
http://la.meh.net.nz:24/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=meh.arpmeh
that's to arp vm from vm on arp dedicated
hmm
maybe it is kvr03 issue?
i can't rmeember what host acf is on
http://i.imgur.com/jFD4Yic.png
wishing i still had my server at home so i could have additional data
but i shut down everything here but an rpi
haha
a rpi*
acf ios on kvr27
looking at logs
he may have more than one host thouugh
i saw something about kvr10 - i was on 27 before (had a project that ended)
oh
i saw discussion about 10 too
but he said he had high latencies to 27
but that may have been you :)
yeah, we were trying to figure out the ntt weirdness
around then
i should just monitor them all :/
Thanks for the reminder m0unds, I keep meaning to setup smokeping on my rpi
(but it still won't be today)
That's what she said!!
i need to set it up on my san jose vultr host
which seeems to be ntt
if i weren't running an awful java app on mine i would
so useful for testing transit from arp i suppose
i need to get another one
the network is pretty bad on vultr
is it?
well it depnds
http://sj.meh.net.nz:24/10m
vs http://la.meh.net.nz:24/10m
they're both the same for me, 5MB/sec
maybe youu're closer
i likely am
vultr has random issues more often too
oh wow
from uk sj is way faster than la
ntt vs level3
i've only used a couple hosts long term over the last several years
arp and linode for the last 2 or so
i only use vultr cos they're cheap
just for smokeping and bw tests haha
and somewhre convenient to ssh to
ok this is strange
vultr is going ntt->level3
and getting better performance than arp going level3->level3
i wonder if something is up with level3
arp to vultr was fast.
but sj vultr shouldn't be twice the speed of arp
esp when they're both l3 to uk
(that was doing a uk test)
and vultr has the extra ntt to level3 hop
http://pastebin.com/HNz6uQtK
anyone want to try my curl download test?
it downloads 7 10mb files
i probably should just stick it on site
http://weallsee.net/testspeed
mercutio: http://sprunge.us/GdAh but 10MB is a pretty small test file for a good connection with 100mbps Internet.
brycec: it's good to be small
(that's from my home cable connection)
large fikles you usually have in background
smaller ones you have in foreground
and it gives you a good idea if connection is going wekll
But for a speed test, a 10MB file on a connection that can carry 10MB/s is a poor sample size.
i usually time the whole script
but adding up the numbers it looks pretty good
Ah
but la is slower than sj
why is la so slow
(I'm also closer to SJ)
oh
but look how fast you get to new zealand
the top one is new zealand
ah
faster than .au, impressive and surprising
la.meh.net.nz is a nz ip advertised on an arp vm
i hope it's not going via nz
nz is actually closer to the US than asutralia
and syd is vultr :/
yeah but aren't most trans-pacific cables going to Sydney directly?
i thought it was more imrpessive that it's faste than los angeles
nope
well they are
but it's a longer cable
i probably should use an arp ip
but as a quick test, la.meh.net.nz ping looks fien?
(currently running mtr's to see)
(Looks like I get to NZ via Cogent's SJ -> Plain.net.nz direct)
(And Sydney via NTT LA / Equinix Sydney)
http://sprunge.us/GNCS if you're curious
la pings were slightly slower than san jose, and both went over NTT
well it matters more what my route to you is
it's 3.18 kernel on la vs 3.19 on the others
it's gtt->comcast from nz
and it's going direct via san jose
and la is sending out via level3 to comcast.
with way worse jitter
i mean icmp deprioritisation and all that, but it's 0.3 msec jitter vs 2.1 msec jitter.
the jitter on seattle level3 is showing 0.3 msec jitter though
the jitter is on te-0-1-1-ten01.spokane.wa.seattle.comcast.net
and te-0-1-0
they both hit that hop
which alternates.
(I should point out that Spokane, roughly wear I live, is a city 5 hours East of Seattle)
actually they both hit be-37-sur03.spokane.wa.seattle.comcast.net
and the jitter isn't there
That's what she said!!
(So, presumably Seattle serves as our upstream, but it is aways away)
so probably it's forward path
ahh your mtrs only have one ping
Yeah, for expediency
it's hard to know thouugh
yeah
can you run that test again just to make sure it's not random that la is going slow?
sure
i mean 30 megabit isn't /that/ slow
do you want just la's mtr?
just la's mtr
and la's download speed
actually just doing la a few times over for the 10mb test would be fine
it gets over 40mb/sec from vultr
so i doubt it's a general throughput issue
which is making me wonder if level3 is being weird

DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0
 سمَـَّوُوُحخ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ امارتيخ ̷̴̐خ
if it's slightly problematic generally, it increases the chances that it's being more problematic other times
mercutio: http://sprunge.us/LRJG
(and traffic on my own net is relatively quiet)
wow
it's all ove rthe place.
i reckon there's packet loss
can you try the same thing with garlic.plain.net.nz:24/10m ?
i expect it'll be the same
sure, one sec
anyone use policy based routing to redirect certain traffic out a different gateway?
i've done it before mnathani_
mercutio: http://sprunge.us/dMJd
using ip rule and multiple tables
I redirect specific subnets and addresses over my work vpn, yeah
yeah same diff with garlic
it's xen, garlic is dom0
why does your router have such high pings?
just seems a bit strange :)
because I don't have direct ethernet to it
oh it's bridged?
(ethernet-coax-ethernet)
ahh
decanet specifically
pings to other hosts on this side of the bridge are .3ms
maybe we could try iperf udp test?
sup with yogeebear trying to dccc the file "startkeylogger"
hoggworm: #frenode is already aware
it's a pita if you can't easily forward udp
hoggworm: https://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/startkeylogger.html
brycec: cheers
np
that startkeylogger thing is old apparently
and it's been in other channels earlier
oh
haven't seen it yet on ircnet/efnet/dalnet
apparnelty it's an old mirc thing
I first got a random CTCP in Arabic from them :/
brycec: so destination address based routing?
mnathani_: just simple "route add..." stuff
i used it for source based routing
I am trying to route my chromecast over a vpn
(and I use pf to limit sources)
yeah that's easy mnathani_
without forcing all wireless traffic over the vpn
oh and I want to be able to stop routing over the vpn with a command
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/05/29/a-quick-introduction-to-linux-policy-routing/
does that help you?
command: "Woman, unplug this cable" :p
ie: no config changes or dhcp lease changes on the chromecast
of course you'll want to set a static ip or permanent dhcp ip address on the chromecast
dhcp reservation is what I have now
I am attempting to do this using vlans / cisco layer 3 switch and Router if required
if you have a linux box
just set the chromecast to gateway to the linux box
and look at that link i linked for policy routing
basically youu can have two route tables
ip rule add from 192.168.30.200 lookup custom
so you can have a table called custom
would a linux vm work, or will it work out better to have a physical box with multiple interfaces?
vm is fine
ip route add default via 192.168.30.1 dev eth1 table custom
then you do something like that
are these going to converto to iptable rules?
hmm i did a udp test to uk nad it was fine
network namespaces in Linux are also nifty
it's even got less jitter than vultr
so why is http going slow
this level3 thing just gets weirder
with multiple connections to the uk one of them goes way faster than the other
so there's some load balancing going on
so my udp test may have been fine because it was on the fine connection
so bryces huge varying degrees of speed for the 10mb file may been due to alternating load balanced connections
mercutio: how can I test the curl 10 meg files
mnathani_: http://weallsee.net/testspeed
it's a shell script
with the urls
and set -x so you know which host it's going to :)
i'm seeing jitter to comcast now too
from nz
it was fine before, so comcast's load balancing is lame too :)
it seems to be a general issue these days
i think the core issue is that people are using aggregated 10 gigabit ethernet connections with people with high speed connections close by
and that seems to be more of an issue regionally, as long distance connections are 40g+
it may even be aggregated gigabit in smaller locations.
http://pastebin.com/byQUYHGx
thats from my residential 60mbit connection in Toronto
wow you're so slow to japan
and nz
i wonder why
on teksavvy?
http://pastebin.com/fDh8A1iW
ok i find this more than a little disconcerting.
la is slower than it should be it seems
is a reoccuring theme
haha
i do wonder why mnathani was so slow to japan and nz though
yea, i'm maxing out at 2.3MB/sec from that la test
could be horribly slow writes
yea, hitting 5.4MB/sec on my desktop
i forgot i was testing on my rpi :)
it doesn't write
it redirects to > /dev/null
well, an arm6 cpu is dog-ass slow
regardless
yeah
mercutio: the Ethernet on the rpi is a USB connection to the host
so bus- and cpu-bound ;)
and that ^
yeh they suck
it's fine for running crashplan
haha
I wouldn't say they suck, they just have their place
yep
i have one that controls my fermenter and i have one running crashplan
(Find me another $35 computer that is comparably spec'd and has a non-usb and non-seial Ethernet controller :P)
http://pastebin.com/4jcYkRjF
this is my vdsl connection
I have one for OOB/serial access to my core network, and one for Kodi. A good gamut of uses.
rpi terminal server sounds good
I can send you an mtr
m0unds: it's powered by the USB port on my wifi AP :P
i have some old-ass cisco 2516-rj
even better, hah
oh, i have one that does aircraft transponder monitoring via sdr dongle
forgot about that one
fun
the dump1090 binary is a little crashy, but i just automate restarting it
mercutio: http://pastebin.com/nQR6qvNu
yeah it's any2ix both ways
does that mean you're any2ix to la.meh.net.nz too?
maybe they're overloading their any2ix port
I redid the speed test http://pastebin.com/i8g3fz9x
i'm probably going to have to upgrade japan's bandwidth :)
you mean japan your host
as opposed to the country right
oh it's fine
yes
it's vultr tokyo server
108.713 GB of 200 GB (54%) (Bandwidth preferences)
it looks like it's fine because most of it's incoming
some hosts like liquidweb do free incoming
vultr doesn't :/
but they onyl charge you whichever is highest
and outbound is way lower
on 42.468gb
it's a real pita increasing bandwidth on them
your vps shuts down for ages etc
cos you have to change plans
do other things change as well
like cpu cores and memory
you get some more memory and more disk
when you enter the next tier
yeah
but i don't use much disk
/dev/vda1        15G  3.1G   11G  23% /
do you have a slave setup for smokeping
nope
or are they all individual
i just stick it on multiple hsots
I guess its easy enough to compare / correleate events with the web interface
yeah
i find it easier
but i want multiple views etc
so i can choose how it shows :)
so i'm trying arp's test download
and i'm finding it seems worse for performance
it seems to speed up slower
do you have 100 meg test files?
nope
i can make one
i have 200mb
testfile.zip
it's urandom not a zip file
on each host?
yeah that's everywhere
there's also 200k everywhere
i'm smokepinging with 200k
200k actually identifies issues often
but it has a huge latency bias
with 10mb the latency doesn't matter nearly as much
well at < 50 megabit
at > 200 megabit it does
they should all be on gigabit too i think
i also have it on cloudflare
http://weallsee.net/10m
but i don't think they like you doing that
cloudflare is served from that first ip
with light use it's prob ok
does someone else want to try hosting a 10mb file?
https://speedtest.cobryce.com/speedtest/random2500x2500.jpg ot
*it's 12MB but close enough
there's also 3000 and 3500
oh and 4000x4000 is 40MB
*30MB
hmm it's slightly quicker
3598 vs 3407
so yeah probably just the larger file size
having a copy the same size woudl be better for testing comparitively i reckon
(and I have smaller files - 1000 1500 2000 2500)
(oh and 350 500 750)
http://la.meh.net.nz/mini/speedetst/random2500x2500.jpg
i have that too :)
but not everywhere
good typo :p
oh shit
s/detst/dtest/
<mercutio> http://la.meh.net.nz/mini/speedtest/random2500x2500.jpg
oh yours is https
mine is faster for me now
oh cool you can take the s off
port 80 is there too
I didn't realize I linked to https
yeah i'm finding mine slightly quicker
but not by much
i should check from uk
weird i'm getting way faster speeds from the uk to mine than yours
way faster than i was getting on 10mb before
like 1.6 to 2mb/sec to yours, and 4.4 to 5.4 to mien
That's what she said!!
shouldn't matter?
oh it's a vps?
i thought it was dedicated from the mtr
but of cousre..
arp makes all vps's look dedicated :)
lol
are you on 100 megabit?
Yes, I beleive so
*believe
That's what she said!!
still, uk and nz are about same distance away
(there we go, flash speedtest fixed speedtest.cobryce.com)
and it waas tiny difference from nz and huge from uk
i bet mine's out of date
yip
bah it wants you to login now
http://c.speedtest.net/mini/mini.zip
what?
to download new mini.zip
my speedtest is out of date
It didn't ask me, but I guess I'm already logged in
but chrome remembered my login
well it downloads that fast
http://la.meh.net.nz:24/mini/
from home, I get just better than 6mbps from yours
weird now that was slower on mine than on yours for me
6 megabit?
i'm even getting slower upload
I find the mini test to be fairly unreliable, at least compared to what I get via other methods
yeah it's lame
but it's a useful tool
i prefer my 10mb test.
but what i really want is something that can test a whole lot of normal web sites etc.
but there's huge complexities in there
the problem with speedtest is it just tests close local servers normally
or you tell it to go to some server, adn you don't know which to go to
it doesn't really help getting 100 megabit locally if there are no web sites hosted locally
but how far do you go?
i often find ovh web sites slow
but i don't go to any of them regularly.
it's more i find a web site not loading and i trace to it
and it's ovh
and then it's back again sometime and still going slow
of course it's not necesasrily ovh's network
but like mnathani getting slow speeds to japan and new zealand may not really bother him at all
I don't really need to reach nz or jp most of the time
mnathani: exactly
i don't even need to reach japan really
but it's similar ping to california
Did you see my second speedtest
and it's another way to the US
so if there was some big outage between NZ and US I coudl bounce via there :)
oh they went u~p
i wonder why it was slow the first time.
so now sydney and la the slowest
i wonder what connection speed they have on any2ix
10 gigabit
maybe i should try upgrading kernel on la
ok slightly newer kernel
mercutio: 10 mb it too small for the speed test
here are my results with the 200 meg test file:
mnathani_: why do you say taht?
http://pastebin.com/28uxqhES
hmm la is still slow :(
connection takes a few seconds to reach max speed - by then the file download is already complete
yeah but a lot of that's ramping up, the connection stability etc.
often for interactive stuff it's what matters
it's interesting how close nz and au are for speed
it does look like there's some issue there, but i can get fast to tehre
slower than last time
something's a little weird
it pauses around 7mb/sec for ages
but yeah for 200mb file in la from nz i get average speed of around 8 mb/seec, and current speed of aroudn 11.5mb/sec
that is faster than any of your test resutls.
I have another VPS I can test on
in Toronto
oh yip
the tests from me were on residential connection
i get 17mb/sec to sydney
are you talking megabits or megabytse?
megabytes
lowercase means bits
:-)
nah Mb means megabits
MB means megabytes
mb could be either :)
it shows as M in curl fwiw
the question remains why the slower speeds
17MB/s? Damn that's a nice fat pipe.
uk is consistently giving 5200k/sec within 100k/sec
brycec: it's gigabit
that's testing from the top server on that list
i mean it's gigabit ethernet, not gpon or anything
heh
i can only do around 4.2megabytes/sec from home
heh i can do faster than that at home over network :/
My home network is only GbE :p
yeah i ordered qdr infiniband cards
(averaging 108MB/s currently - disk IO bound)
they're only $30 US each
Nice.
it just means i have to get someone to resend them to me
i still don't know how much that'll cost
heh
but ebay's global shipping program sucks
and the first seller wouldn't ship by usps
and the second seller doesn't ship outside the US
(Also IB wouldn't work well for me - can't very well run another cable across the apartment)
heh
i'm still trying to figure out how the hell i'm going to cable my room
i want to get from one side of the room to the other
runinng cables along the ceiling is guly
ugly
running on the carpet with a rug over could damage them
atm i'm using ethernet and plugging and unplugging
but i'm thinking that i'll have a few on this side
I have a single cat6 strung over top the doorways from front to back of the apartment, it blends in more or less, but every time I see it is a reminder
heh
well i was noticing that fibre is thinner than copper
but it's bright yellow
well the stuff i have is
(or orange, typically)
this is smf
http://pastebin.com/6JyuxBEX
that's windows test to home on zfs
bloody samba is a cpu hog
Only a 100MB test file? Did that ever leave RAM?
yeah
it's windows
it's disk cache sucks
if it was ram it'd be 2000+
i have 32gb of ram
it'd have to be huge to be bigger than ram
and it does seem consistent
lol
well mostly
i'm using ssd's with write cache
err slc write cache
and linux will buffer some writes
but i care about network performance rather than disk performance for these tests :)
mnathani_: can you test downloading bryce's image?
there should be 5000x5000
i dunno what his cap is like heh
the strange thing about mnathani getting slower speed is that it's a any2ix route
and i'm getting fine any2ix performance
and japan and nz should be using any2ix too
and teksavvy only listened any2ix california rather than north/south
http://la.meh.net.nz/mini/speedtest/random2500x2500.jpg < that file?
or you mean from his box
yeh but s/2500/5000/g
but yeah from his box
do both of them
see if it's similar
(it's an ARP VPS)
is the url handy
speedtest.cobryce.com/speedtest/random2500x2500.jpg
oh there's 3500 but not 5000
oh you know what
up to 4000
are those actual images?
if there's a transparent proxy it'll hit with bryce's link but not mine
yeah
they're just random pixels though
mnathani_: they'll render, sure... but it's static/random
it's better than speedtest.net's upload test of zeros
but it's still dedupable
well you can also hack it to cache too
i was playing with it ;)
but it won't give you a result if it goes faster than 1 gigabit
i was just rewriting urls, it's the same mini.zip thingy for the real speed test servers too
I probably shouldnt test from 2 hosts simultaneously hitting brycec's vps
haha
yeah he'll have 100 megabit
nothing has been extremely bad though, so it's diff from the packet loss issue
(and a portion of that is constantly in use :p)
heh la.meh.net.nz has done like 1tb of data in the last 100 days
i thoguht that was quite a lot
in+out combined
oh i've lost it now because i updated the kernel
is that your dedicated box at ARP ?
it was more like 900gb i think
it's a vm on dedicated box
so gigabit pipe
yeh
but yeah there's a reason why i don't normally do 200mb tests ;)
atleast not automated ones
with smokeping
well with smokeping it's 200k
and it's pretty flat except sometimes gets better/worse
but stays good/bad
yeah i wonder if up_the_irons will see it on his graphs
my memory usage on windows desktop is at 88% and I cant seem to figure out whats using up 21 Gigs of Ram
it's relattively minor on mine, so almost certainly unnoticed.
i think some people are doing huge amounts of bandwidth so maybe it'll fade into the background
mnathani_: haha
and I dont want to reboot
i'm not even doing anything on windoms and it's using 5.7gb
two chorme windows, task manager, crystal disk mark, steam, a command prompt, skype, and foobar2000
hm I do have an arp metal box... I should set something up on it.
chrome is runing a lot of processes for two windows
almost 90 chrome processes for me
skype is using 174.1mx of ram
mb
how do you find out the number of chrome processes?
I counted
in the details
god
i don't want to do that :)
probably a better way
using grep | wc -l
or something
if you have cygwin
chrome://memory-redirect/
i don't have cygwin
i have synergy
i just use linux :)
chrome is using 1.3gb of private virtual memry
c:\>tasklist | grep chrome  | wc -l
     85
and 700mb of private memory
sj ;,ddk
oh sweet
when I installed git I chose the option to install unix tools in my path
 % cat tl | grep -i chrome | wc -l
16
i cut and paste it :)
i had tasklist
actually i piped it to a file, then used notepad on it and cut and paste it
 cat tl  | awk '{ print $5, $_}' | sort -n
will show you what's using the most ram
well "cat tl" can be tasklist for you
'awk' is not recognized as an internal or external command
gawk?
mawk?
nawk?
c:\>tasklist | gawk '{ print $5, $_}' | sort -n
-nThe system cannot find the file specified.
haha shit
just cut and paste it to linux?
or bsd
same diff :)
hell even a mac will work
windows is so behind
there is probably a powershell equivalent
i wonder what sort does
you maybe to output to a file and use the sort command
yeah sort doesn't take standard input
and you can tell it how much memory to use
task manager  has a listing with memory
but its not accurate
tasklist said 239,852 kb memory
and task manager said 171 mb i think it was
for skype
lol
turns out it was VLC
that had massive videos on pause
don't you wish for "top"?
was it prebuffering the whole file or something?
it had a portion in memory
video was 48 gigs
23gb though?
I was doing some video rendering earlier as well
process might just have been hanging in the background or something
I am running the curl speed tests on a Toronto VPS
will be interesting to see how it compares
not sure what the max speed of this vps is
you shall find out :)
wow
comparative is intersting anyway
12.7 MB/s from LA
i got more than that before
from nz
you'll hvae like 100 msec ping or something
you had gigabit though
so do you that menas
means
100 megabits / sec = 12.5 megabytes per second
yaeh but 100 megabit physical ethernet never does 12.7mb/sec :)
it can sometimes do 11mb/sec
That's what she said!!
http://pastebin.com/Bt9cXc6E
hmm
that's actually lokoing really good
UK is a bit low
tthe uk server doesn't haev good provider redundancy
it's just using level3
and some people don't have good connections to level3
but thats expected going over the pond
not really
it's way closer than nz
japan is going surprisingly well
what speed do you get from that vps?
its a customer vps
I never really tested
oh that route is over any2ix too
it's any2ix/he.net
would you be surprised if route to jp from that vps woas out cogent
it's what japan uses to get to it that matters
wow
the forward route is ntt->cogent too
it's going via seattle
what location is slc
oh is that salt lake city?
it's any2ix from nz too
but via northern side
hitting palo alto
http://pastebin.com/XavbkEi5
yeah the reverse route is basically the same
can you try to the nz server again?
i just upped the transmit window size
thats the one with the IP
yeah
instead of hostname?
it's emerald.meh.net.nz
if you want a name for it
bad habit :)
i know what it is :)
http://pastebin.com/HSw0G1bL
slightly better
actualyl about 50% better
a bit less
but damn when did he.net get good? :)
just tested downlaoding to myself from the toronto VPS : http://pastebin.com/9cYizZzR
nice
maybe you should bounce your connections via it haha
cable can often have inconsistent speeds
comcast, cox, verizon are all like that
they all have sub par routing
bulk/cheap
but from the little i read about teksavvy it sonuded like they wanted to be better than other people
so maybe they will peer more and more and upgrade their network etc.
but why some any2ix fast and some slow is bizzare
it doesn't seem like an arp issue
but it's hard to know for suure
I consistently max my connection while using usenet
to a close server?
they use a pool and geo dns
joh yip
oh yip
well any2ix is ages away from torronto :/
haven't run a trace to them
but i can't for the life of me figure why it would be slower
http://pastebin.com/ddGVk8mY
thats one of the usenet servers
not sure if they do anycasting too
does appear to be an anycast address
you suure?
pretty sure
that's going to east coast for me it seems
I got low ping from ARP
and Toronto
and IL
weird i get high ping from nz
sj to la to dc
connects to hwng in sj
how do I get mtr report to be 2 times as wide
lots of things are high ping here though
like ebay
so hostnames are visible
and amazon
amazon is around 230 msec
i dunno why it's so high
ebay lost hop it shows is phoenix at 150msec
but it seems to load slow
actually it's better than it used to be
i thought sites like that were meant to be heavily optimised thogh :)
try doing a dns lookup
ok
see if you get a different ip
on what name?
news.newshosting.com
nope
same location
news.newshosting.com is an alias for news.iad.newshosting.com.
i assume that is location
and 2 ips?
yeah
.28 and .29
same ip you had
is there a way to use looking glass
to check as path
and determine anycast
or perhaps they just peer a lot
BGP.as_path: 9559 17746 4610 4826 12989 29798
it says dc from arp too
and 60+ msec
that's not low ping :)
well it's low ping for east coast
but it's still east coast
hmm .. so its not anycast
?
yeah
but it's nearish to you
I think they have different dns names for europe
yeah could do
So I recently started getting random hits for /data/v3/config.dat from some misconfigured Maxthon browser thinger. I got tired of firewalling the random IP's, and I have plenty of bandwidth to spare, so I pointed them at a 48GB (sparse) file instead. The last request gave up around 300MB  MWUAhahaha
haha what
crazy
wouldn't it be better to feed it out really slowly?
46.166.186.230 vps3.cobryce.com:443 - [20/Mar/2015:23:32:31 -0700] "GET /data/v3/config.dat HTTP/1.1" 200 365837887 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.4.3.4000 Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36"
mercutio: but that's harder
It's supposed to be some "safe browsing" file from what I found Googling it.
So I'm possibly overwhelming the hapless computers. :D