Re: GbE performance

2006-02-28 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Dag Bakke wrote: > Got both. Max throughput increased from ~605 Mbps with carefully tuned > options to iperf, to ~650 Mbps with less carefully tuned options to iperf. One other suggestion that might be worth testing: try comparing SMP and UP kernels. I'v

Re: GbE performance

2006-02-28 Thread Dag Bakke
Michael Chan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 +0100, Dag Bakke wrote: >> I have been playing with a couple of laptops with GbE interfaces, and >> iperf. (Two Dell Latitude D600 connected back-to-back.) [snip] >> Is there anything I can do to increase the bandwidth further, or is this >> as fa

Re: GbE performance

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Chan
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 +0100, Dag Bakke wrote: > I have been playing with a couple of laptops with GbE interfaces, and > iperf. (Two Dell Latitude D600 connected back-to-back.) > I was actually quite happy to get 600 Mbps of TCP traffic through the cable. > Until I realised that my GbE interfa

GbE performance

2006-02-27 Thread Dag Bakke
I have been playing with a couple of laptops with GbE interfaces, and iperf. (Two Dell Latitude D600 connected back-to-back.) I was actually quite happy to get 600 Mbps of TCP traffic through the cable. Until I realised that my GbE interface appears to be capable of running at 66 MHz, thus having t