Sean wrote:
I've been experimenting with the idea of doing channel bonding as a
means of improving the performance of some heavily used file servers.
Currently I am using a single Intel 1000MT interface on each file
server and it has rather lack luster performance.
[..snip..]
In case anyone has an
I will be putting together a dual Opteron this weekend with the hope
of testing network throughput.
Spec will be:
Dual 244, 2Gb RAM, 5x400Gb SATA RAID 5 on a Highpoint 1820a
Broadcom 5705, Intel gE and a Intel dual port ( PCI 32 ) for comparison.
Will let you know the results.
Steve
- Origin
> 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.
>
Yes. The 3ware card and the Dual Port em are both in the PCI-X 100
slots (the first two)
I've been experimenting with the idea of doing channel bonding as a
means of improving the performance of some heavily used file servers.
Currently I am using a single Intel 1000MT interface on each file
server and it has rather lack luster performance.
I've set two ports of my switch to 'shared'
