Hi
it depends on the SSD, if you are using a good NVMe you are probably able 
to read 10 Gbps, instead if you are using a standard SSD, the read speed is
much lower..

Alfredo

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 12:33, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfredo,
> We are using SSD and wonder how can that be slow !! 
> Please help to validate it!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 23, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> please note the "WARNING: [sender] waiting.. (buffer empty)” messages in 
>> your output,
>> this means that the IO is not fast enough reading data from disk and 
>> providing it to disk2n,
>> what kind of storage are you using?
>> 
>> Alfredo
>> 
>>> On 23 Aug 2019, at 10:05, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>>> From: Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>> Date: August 23, 2019 at 1:34:05 PM GMT+5:30
>>>> To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>> Subject: Fw: Not able to achieve consistent 10Gbps on Napatech 2x40G card 
>>>> for more than 10 seconds
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> We are evaluating disk2n on Napatech 2x40G card to achieve sending traffic 
>>>> more than 10G. 
>>>> 
>>>> We started for 10G traffic with 9 pcaps of around 1.5G to send on Napatech 
>>>> port 0. 
>>>> 
>>>> Initially for few seconds we were able to observe 10G traffic then 
>>>> afterwards it gradually reduces to 2.6Gbps and remains around 2-2.6Gbps 
>>>> for rest of the period.
>>>> 
>>>> So, we were not able to achieve consistent 10G traffic with disk2n on 
>>>> Napatech card.
>>>> 
>>>> We have also purchased the license for n2disk. 
>>>> 
>>>> Question. How can we achieve 10Gbps traffic on 2x40Napatech card with 
>>>> driver ntanl_package_3gd-11.6.0-linux?
>>>> 
>>>> OS details
>>>> 
>>>> # uname -r
>>>> 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
>>>> 
>>>> # cat /etc/redhat-release 
>>>> CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) 
>>>> 
>>>> # numactl --hardware
>>>> available: 2 nodes (0-1)
>>>> node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
>>>> node 0 size: 131034 MB
>>>> node 0 free: 127156 MB
>>>> node 1 cpus: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
>>>> node 1 size: 131071 MB
>>>> node 1 free: 125674 MB
>>>> node distances:
>>>> node   0   1 
>>>>   0:  10  20 
>>>>   1:  20  10 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - O utput of disk2n is shared in  attached file.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> root@RW-MUM-COUCHBASE1 ~]# 
>>>> 
>>>> We tried without caching option also (-b) and the max throughput was 2.5G
>>>> 
>>>> # disk2n -i nt:0 -m /tmp/playpcap.txt -c 1 -w 2 -S 3   -C 1024 -I 450  -v
>>>> 
>>>> While browsing the link 
>>>> https://www.ntop.org/guides/pf_ring/modules/napatech.html
>>>>  <https://www.ntop.org/guides/pf_ring/modules/napatech.html>
>>>> in section 
>>>> 
>>>> 8.4. Napatech and Packet Copy
>>>> If you use the PF_RING (non-ZC) API packets are read in zero-copy. Instead 
>>>> if you use PF_RING ZC API, a per-packet copy takes place, which is 
>>>> required to move payload data from Napatech-memory to ZC memory. Keep this 
>>>> in mind!
>>>> 
>>>> It describes that if we use PF_RING ZC then 1 copy happens. Could you 
>>>> please explain this?
>>>> 
>>>> -Iqbal
>>>> 
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