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arne.z
Asked: 2016-04-27 13:03:39 +0800 CST

Iperf3 keeps hanging when running UDP test

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I wrote a Python program that runs iperf3 in a for loop with different datagram sizes. I am using Python's subprocess.call function to run iperf3 like this:

 iperf3 -u -c 185.82.21.60 -b 100M -t 5 -l <datagram size>

My datagram size starts with 1000 and increases by 100 after each iteration and should run until it reaches a size of 2000. Every time I am running my program, iperf3 keeps hanging after the 6th time and starts using 100% of one of my CPUs. After this I cannot use iperf3 anymore until I kill the running client process and restart the iper3 server.

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udp python iperf linux-networking

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  1. Best Answer

    So, it turned out that my problem is caused by this bug. The solution seems to be to update the ESX hosts's drivers.

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