I've been experimenting with the idea of doing channel bonding as a means of improving the performance of some heavily used file servers.[..snip..]
Currently I am using a single Intel 1000MT interface on each file
server and it has rather lack luster performance.
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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