On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Brian McNally <bmcna...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> I'd second testing to make sure bonding/trunking is working before you base > other performance numbers on it. You may also want to consider different > bonding modes if you have problems with balancing the traffic out. See: > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<ver>/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt Thanks Brian! I'll double check but I have tested in the past to make sure bonding is multiplying my traffic B/W. I am using bonding in the Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) mode. I forget what tool I had used but I believe it was indeed netperf. Of course the advantage only comes when talking to two+ peers at the same time. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
