We are putting in gigabit ethernet. In trying to test the speed of the links in individual rooms, it quickly became apparent that we are bottlenecked on things like the speed of the hard drive that receives the files being copied from a server. We never got utilization much above
19%, with occasional periods of 0% between the peaks on a long copy.
Does anyone make a utility that will allow two computers connected through a gigabit ethernet infrastructure to saturate the pipe in order to test the actual capacity and throughput of the gigabit network? I assume this would be some kind of peer to peer application that would just exchange specific repeatable byte sequences between the two computers from memory, never using disk.