Re: Linux networking and disk IO issues

2001-06-13 Thread Andi Kleen
[this time with l-k cc] Mark Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * The Linux networking stack requires all skbuff buffers to be > contiguous. As far as I can tell, this makes it impossible to > write high-bandwidth UDP applications on Linux. For instance, the > kernel will drop a fragm

Linux networking and disk IO issues

2001-06-04 Thread Mark Hayden
I recently released a clusted storage system for Linux (the software in binary form and manual can be downloaded from www.northforknet.com). This software, you can create a highly available storage cluster out of standard PC hardware. During this work, we encountered a number of problems with th