One consideration is the size of the messages being exchanged. Even
today, small packets can markedly reduce switch performance. RFC 2544
compliance is not universal in the Layer 2 world.
gerry
Jon Forrest wrote:
Brendan Moloney wrote:
Since it is a full duplex switched network, there should not be any
collisions happening.
I have a similar situation with a slightly larger cluster.
At first I also thought it was a network performance
problem. But then I ran the iftop program to watch
the network in realtime and I saw that I wasn't
even close to sending enough data to tax the switch.
I still don't know the cause of the problem but
I'm pretty sure it's not cause by excessive
network traffic. I suggest you try iftop to
see what your program is really doing.
Cordially,
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