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Update description of -P option for multithreading.
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bmah888 committed Nov 8, 2023
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.TH IPERF3 1 "September 2022" ESnet "User Manuals"
.TH IPERF3 1 "April 2023" ESnet "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
iperf3 \- perform network throughput tests
.SH SYNOPSIS
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default is to use an ephemeral port)
.TP
.BR -P ", " --parallel " \fIn\fR"
number of parallel client streams to run. Note that iperf3 is single threaded, so if you are CPU bound, this will not yield higher throughput.
number of parallel client streams to run. iperf3 will spawn off a
separate thread for each test stream. Using multiple streams may
result in higher throughput than a single stream.
.TP
.BR -R ", " --reverse
reverse the direction of a test, so that the server sends data to the
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