Hi everyone, It's been a while since I've been on clug-talk. Lots of familiar faces though.
I'm having some trouble with slow performance and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas? I have two older HP Proliant servers (ML370 and DL360), a more modern desktop computer and an i7 laptop and I'm having trouble getting any of them to move data across my network at anywhere above about 45MB/s. While these machines aren't the pinnacle of modern computing they should be able to saturate GigE. Server 1 (Goliath) has a NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet (pciX) Server 1 (Screamer) has a NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (pciX) Both the switch and ethtool agree that each card is 1Gbit/s full-duplex. I've tried just piping data from /dev/zero on one machine to /dev/null on theother and it seems to hit the speed limit.
== Machine 1 == 06:54:57-root@screamer:~ $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=8k count=1000000| nc goliath 9999 1000000+0 records in 1000000+0 records out 8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 167.261 s, 49.0 MB/s == Machine 2 == 06:59:19-jsc@goliath:~ $ nc -l 9999 > /dev/null Strangely (and probably related) is that in the above test, NC pegs a CPU core on the sending side. I wouldn't have thought that the overhead for netcat would be significant at all. I see similar performance (~45MB/s) moving files between machines using Samba.I've tried with two separate gigE switches (one a new-ish Netgear GS108E) and a new set of Cat 6 cables and still I get remarkable consistent performance.
Anyone have any ideas what I should be looking at in more detail. Thanks, Jeff
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