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 -- "You know, I've seen some crystals do some pretty trippy shit, man." Don't Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html