From b3996631b117d4be7be0f0354dbdb7cb2091a191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Gulliver Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 15:30:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify tuning goal. --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 10e2c28..d2b57ce 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Bad statistics look like this: Stats: rounds=2400, mean_cycles_to_connect=68.08, ready_to_send=0.48 ``` +Overloading the server may seem like a good thing from a stress testing +perspective, but it is likely to cause TCP to coalesce packets in the receive +buffer, defeating the purpose of packet boundary fuzzing. + ## When will it stop? stutterfuzz never exits normally; the search space is too large to be