On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:23:33PM +0100, JaniD++ wrote:
> I have 4 HW-equal disk nodes, what i use with NBD.

> When i try to get the top performance, i seriously found the network as the
> bottleneck.

What motherboard are you using?  On my test box I am able to get 100MB/s 
reads over the network with nbd (granted that is with the file cached on 
the server).

> 169:   18907824          0   IO-APIC-level  libata, eth0

Shared interrupts?  Bad...

> 177: 1144300306          0   IO-APIC-level  eth1

Is eth1 the e1000?  Try binding it to the second CPU by doing an

        echo >/proc/irq/177 2

The e1000 driver also has several tunable options for its various 
features.  See drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c.  Disabling interrupt 
rate throttling might help.

                -ben
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