distributed performance test

[Matthias Lang]

Ignore my previous post... The source was included in another message.

I re-ran your tests on two machines and I do _not_ see the unexpected
behaviour you're seeing. You reported:

 > CLIENT          SERVER          THREADS PERFORMANCE (Calls/sec)
 > ======          ======          ======= =======================
 > n2@REDACTED	n2@REDACTED	1	238095
 > n2@REDACTED	n2@REDACTED	5	43478
 > 
 > n1@REDACTED	n2@REDACTED 1	2364
 > n1@REDACTED	n2@REDACTED 5	71        !!!  Why?

Repeating this on a PC and a laptop:

CLIENT          SERVER          THREADS PERFORMANCE (Calls/sec)
======          ======          ======= =======================
a@REDACTED      a@REDACTED      1       257997
a@REDACTED      a@REDACTED      5        52714

b@REDACTED     a@REDACTED      1         1193
b@REDACTED     a@REDACTED      5          319

a@REDACTED      b@REDACTED     1          905
a@REDACTED      b@REDACTED     5          340

The machines were "mostly idle" when I ran the tests. I used R9C on
both. The network between them is slow (10Mbit, hub). Ping roundtrip
time is about 400us.

Matthias