So I've gotten link aggregation working on the server and one of the clients
(had a small adventure recovering an older Linksys SRW2008 switch). The
performance actually dropped a bit on the one client. (the easiest way to test
this is to just unplumb and replumb the various combinations of card
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> I actually have two ethernet ports on the server, so in principle I
> should be able to use automatic link-aggregation in OSOL to do this,
> right? If I u
So this is a good call all around. I finally figured out (once again, thanks to
another helpful post on this board) about how to benchmark with DD. Doing the
direct reads and writes to a non-deduped, non-compressed filesystem over NFS, I
get about 110 MB/sec reading, and writing, which is very c
Thanks for the tips. I'll check out Wireshark.
A second question: how do you assess performance within the box itself? I'm
using iostat -x, but there's also bonnie (which I've never used). If I want to
figure out if the network is the limiting factor, I should also figure out the
limiting hard-
I think the benefit of link aggregation in OSOL is when multiple clients
connect to the single server. Because link agg in OSOL is based on L2, L3, or
L4, even at L4 you would have to use different ports/protocols to see any
improvement on a single client. Plus, I'm not sure a single workstation
Thanks, guys.
I actually have two ethernet ports on the server, so in principle I should be
able to use automatic link-aggregation in OSOL to do this, right? If I
understand correctly, the two adapters get teamed, and only require a single IP
address, right?
Of course, then to see any improvem
I use lacp with two NICs on my server, and during seq writes, can nearly fill
the pipes, 200mbps. This is with two clients. I have not seen packet loss, but
I'm not looking either :).
You can specify the load balancing policy with opensolaris, and I use L4. This
way, two clients using the same
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> Everything is working pretty well, and over NFS, I can get a solid 80
> MB/sec if I'm copying big files. This is adequate, but I am wondering
>
> of the d
Thanks to the help from many people on this board, I finally got my
OpenSolaris-based NAS box up and running.
I have a Dell T410 with a Xeon E5504 2.0 GHz (Nehalem) quad-core processor, 8
GB of RAM. I have six 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (HD32000IDK/7K) SATA drives, set up
as stripes across three mirr
