Real life testing

At the Wizards of OS 3 conference, introduced in section 5.7.1, bandwidth usage was measured in a network consisting of 20 nodes. The node recording the bandwidth was placed in a position where it had 11 symmetric neighbors. The overhead of control traffic is displayed in figure 10.3. The CPU usage from this test on a 1Ghz based laptop was:

real    5m6.348s
user    0m0.510s
sys     0m0.260s

This means that olsrd used 0.25% of the total available CPU time during this test. Profiling and debugging were enabled in the binary used. This is causing some extra CPU usage.

Figure: Overhead of OLSR control traffic at the test network set up at WoS3.