Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-27 Thread lina
Sorry to interrupt, Why I failed to use $ iperf -c 155.X.Y.Z -r Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) connect failed: Connection refused $ i

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/26/2012 1:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Yes snapping is the problem due to which i have to make the snapshot > on local drive and further i have to copy the whole stuff via SCP. > do you think iSCSI LUNs are faster as FTP. or i should first make a > local copy then FTP to Storage? Su

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most >> often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then >> i have to scp them to other network stora

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most > often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then > i have to scp them to other network storage. scp is not the proper application for this due to overhea

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 5:45 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth >> [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec   744 MBytes   624 Mbits/sec >> [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec   876 MBytes   734 Mbits/sec > >> [ ID] Interval       Transfer    

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/22/2012 5:45 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 744 MBytes 624 Mbits/sec > [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 876 MBytes 734 Mbits/sec > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth > [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec744 MBytes623 Mbits/sec

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >>>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.11 GBytes    953 Mbits/sec >>>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec    585 MBytes    490 Mbits/sec  0.053 ms 393567/810629 >> >> can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. >> i c

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.11 GBytes    953 Mbits/sec >>[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec    585 MBytes    490 Mbits/sec  0.053 ms 393567/810629 > > can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. > i can understand the values but i can not understand it like what i

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
>[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.11 GBytes953 Mbits/sec >[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec585 MBytes490 Mbits/sec 0.053 ms 393567/810629 can you please explain what these two lines mean in the output. i can understand the values but i can not understand it like what is 1.11GBytes and what is 953 and etc.

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -u -b 1024M > > Server listening on UDP port 5001 > Receiving 1470 byte datagrams > UDP buffer size:  110 KByte (default) > ---

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -u -b 1024M Server listening on UDP port 5001 Receiving 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 110 KByte (default) ---

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
TCP Result iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r -w 2M Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 256 KByte (WARNING: requested 2.00 MByte)

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >> Try using -u or f.i. -w 2M with TCP. >> But your results are quite good already. > > UDP only > > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -u -r > > Server listening on UDP port 5001 > Receiving 1470 byte datag

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> Try using -u or f.i. -w 2M with TCP. > But your results are quite good already. UDP only root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -u -r Server listening on UDP port 5001 Receiving 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 110 KByte (default)

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/22 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > ok here you go with the details > > this is the storage server NAS/SAN box > > root@nasbox:/# iperf -c 10.X.X.7 -r > > Server listening on TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) >

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >>> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner >> wrote: >>> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in >>> openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in >> openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps >> with Jumbo frame? > > I don't use jumbo frames here

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in > openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps > with Jumbo frame? I don't use jumbo frames here because: 1. Not all the desktop NICs support it 2. No single

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:32:11PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Your 200 to 300 Mbps correspond to your disk throughput in my opinion. > > Try to use iperf to test your network throughput, and be well aware > > that your disk io will be the real bottleneck here. > sorry i got your questio

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:32:11PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> > Your 200 to 300 Mbps correspond to your disk throughput in my opinion. >> > Try to use iperf to test your network throughput, and be well aware >> > that your disk io wil

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com
Le Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:32:11 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:28 PM, bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com > wrote: > > Le Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:00:10 -0500, > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > >> On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> > >> > agreed, but my virt

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/21/2012 3:05 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i am using Debian with below specs >> 1 GB RAM >>  Xeon 2.8 >> 2 TB SATA x2 (RAID 1) >> >> i learn that my LAN throughput is like 200 to 300 Mbps which is quite >> enough for me for now. bu

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:28 PM, bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com wrote: > Le Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:00:10 -0500, > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > >> On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> > agreed, but my virtualization system is 4 core xeon 2.3 with 8 GB >> > RAM. 500 GB sata RAID 1 so i thin

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: >> 2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >> > i am using bw-ng however i am actually learning these stats from "scp" >> > copy command and secondly from samba when i try to download so

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:28 PM, bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com wrote: > Le Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:00:10 -0500, > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > >> On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> > agreed, but my virtualization system is 4 core xeon 2.3 with 8 GB >> > RAM. 500 GB sata RAID 1 so i thin

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/21/2012 3:05 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i am using Debian with below specs >> 1 GB RAM >>  Xeon 2.8 >> 2 TB SATA x2 (RAID 1) >> >> i learn that my LAN throughput is like 200 to 300 Mbps which is quite >> enough for me for now. bu

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > > i am using bw-ng however i am actually learning these stats from "scp" > > copy command and secondly from samba when i try to download some huge > > files from samba to windows host. my network g

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:00:10AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Samba uses TCP because its protocol is CIFS/SMB, which use TCP. Samba > doesn't speak TCP. CIFS/SMB are two layers up the OSI stack. They you > can't "tune" Samba's network performance. You can only tune Linux' TCP > performance,

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com
Le Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:00:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > agreed, but my virtualization system is 4 core xeon 2.3 with 8 GB > > RAM. 500 GB sata RAID 1 so i think hardware will not be a problem > > You keep mentioning all your hardware

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/21/2012 5:28 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > agreed, but my virtualization system is 4 core xeon 2.3 with 8 GB RAM. > 500 GB sata RAID 1 so i think hardware will not be a problem You keep mentioning all your hardware specs but what counts most: THE NIC > only 1 switch which is 1 GB suppo

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/21/2012 3:05 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am using Debian with below specs > 1 GB RAM > Xeon 2.8 > 2 TB SATA x2 (RAID 1) > > i learn that my LAN throughput is like 200 to 300 Mbps which is quite > enough for me for now. but i am planning ahead to use ISCSI for > virtualization to prov

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >> i am using bw-ng however i am actually learning these stats from "scp" >> copy command and secondly from samba when i try to download some huge >> files from samba to windows host. my network graph bumps

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > i am using bw-ng however i am actually learning these stats from "scp" > copy command and secondly from samba when i try to download some huge > files from samba to windows host. my network graph bumps up n down b/w > 200 to 300 Mbps. scp is a bad idea - think ab

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > 2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >> i am using Debian with below specs >> 1 GB RAM >>  Xeon 2.8 >> 2 TB SATA x2 (RAID 1) >> >> i learn that my LAN throughput is like 200 to 300 Mbps which is quite >> enough for me for now. but i am planning

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Bartek Krawczyk
2012/6/21 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > i am using Debian with below specs > 1 GB RAM > Xeon 2.8 > 2 TB SATA x2 (RAID 1) > > i learn that my LAN throughput is like 200 to 300 Mbps which is quite > enough for me for now. but i am planning ahead to use ISCSI for > virtualization to provide HA, therefore