Network performance 6.0 with netperf

[Michael VInce]

Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:

>Michael VInce wrote:
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>>I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest.
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>>I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and
>>noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP
>>kernel.
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>>As with the network setup ( A --- B --- C  ) with server B being the
>>gateway, doing a basic 'fetch' from the gateway (B) to the Apache server
>>(C) it gives up to 700mbits/sec transfer performance, doing a fetch from
>>server A thus going through the gateway gives slower but still decent
>>performance of up to 400mbits/sec.
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>Are you by any chance using PCI NIC's? PCI Bus is limited to somewhere around 1 Gbit/s.
>So if you consider;
>Theoretical maxium = ( 1Gbps - pci_overhead )
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The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am 
assuming they are on the best bus available.

Mike