Re: [perf-discuss] why just one cpu gets loaded so heavily with 4 x 1GigE card?

2008-10-23 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1) Are you using jumbo frames in your setup? No, just the standard 1500 MTU. > With 1500 mtu what kind of throughput you see when all 4 NICs are used? We're only using two NIC's so far. We see 90-95 MBytes/sec on a single link with the current setup. Without the squ

Re: [perf-discuss] why just one cpu gets loaded so heavily with 4 x 1GigE card?

2008-10-23 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1) So, my question is why is cpu% so high in cpu#6 only? Though the problem > is solved with jumbo frames for 2 machines, if we increase number of nodes > this scalability problem will be seen with 3,4,5 ...machines (since cpu > utilization is very high with current state)

[perf-discuss] why just one cpu gets loaded so heavily with 4 x 1GigE card?

2008-10-23 Thread Somenath Bandyopadhyay
(Sorry for posting sol10 networking question here, let me know if I should post it elsewhere) Problem: We don't see 4 x 1 GigE card producing 4 GigE throughput. our setup: two nodes (n1, n2) are back to back connected with 4 GigE NIC cards. Each individual NIC can produce 100MBps throughput. n

Re: [perf-discuss] Solaris Internals cooltools source

2008-10-23 Thread Sean McGrath
Jonathan Edwards stated: < < Anyone know if anyone is maintaining the source for these tools < anywhere? < < http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/tools/index.php I've the source to statit here somewhere. I did write a new version to use kstat library, but that version needs work - nev

[perf-discuss] Solaris Internals cooltools source

2008-10-23 Thread Jonathan Edwards
Anyone know if anyone is maintaining the source for these tools anywhere? http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/tools/index.php i recall that Richard used to maintain a number of these (considering he wrote most of them) out on devnull .. but sadly this seems to have actually gone to /dev/nul