  
  ttest - throughput performance test.

  Version 0.7 20110121


  released in November 1999 under the terms of the 
  GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.
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SHORT:

  ttest aims to be a simple commandline utility that measures the throughput
  of a filesystem, a network connection or any other file. Have a look at
  the sparse lines of code to see what it does. ttest is a quick re-hack of
  Martin Walter's `ptest'-utility.
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USAGE
  ... is quite simple:

  ttest [blocksize] 

  At least one from stdin and stdout must not be on a tty, which completes
  the commandline as:

      ttest 4k > dumpfile

  or: 

      ttest 1m < /dev/hda

  or even:

      dd if=/dev/urandom | ttest 1m > random_garbage

  The displayed values are self-explanatory; The average value correspond to
  the meaning of load averages, eg. 1, 5 and 15-minute averages.

  Please note that ttest dumps tons of zeroes to your file. This will
  definitely fill your filesystem. Writing to a stream that compresses the
  data doesn't really make sense...
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INSTALLATION:
  type `make' in this directory.
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WHERE/AUTHOR
  ttest can be found somewhere under ftp.uni-freiburg.de:/pub/linux/misc .
  Due to the trivial nature of the program there is no further
  documentation (In fact, even this README is for decency only. It's so 
  blown-up anyway...).
  Further improvement is not planned. Use it as you wish. 
  If you find a bug or if you have a nice snippet of code to add that
  increases the usefulness of the program, please send it in to me:

  Roman Drahtmueller <draht@uni-freiburg.de>.

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CHANGELOG:
version 0.3 (compile time fixes in the signal handler)
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Wed Feb 12 15:34:20 MET 2003
version 0.4 (cleanup)
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Fri Aug 15
version 0.5 largefile support change in Makefile.
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Tue Jan 18 13:24:10 CET 2011
version 0.6 handle EOF as read() returning 0 while errno=0 (SUCCESS).
submission to opensuse build service.
