Channel bonding.

[Eric Anderson]

Sean wrote:
> I've been experimenting with the idea of doing channel bonding as a 
> means of improving the performance of some heavily used file servers.
> Currently I am using a single Intel 1000MT interface on each file
> server and it has rather lack luster performance.
[..snip..]
> In case anyone has any ideas I've included the 'specs' of the hardware 
> below.
> 
> Hardware:
> 	Dual Intel Xeon CPU 2.66GHz 
> 	Intel Server SE7501BR2 Motherboard
> 	2X 512 MB Registered ECC DDR RAM
> 	3ware 7500-12 (12x120GB, RAID-5)
> 	Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port (em0,1)
> 	Intel PRO/1000 MT (On board) (em2)
> 	
> Switch:
> 	Extreme Black Diamond 6800
> 	Gigabit Blade: G24T^3 51052
[..snip..]

Are the gig nics in 64bit slots?  32bit slots can slow you down a bunch. 
  Also, I've seen some cases where the PCI bus itself is the bottleneck 
with multiple high-IO boards installed on the same bus.


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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