Hi, Adrian, Graeme and Thomas Thank you for really really rapid reply ! What an incredible ML !
> What network card are you using on the director? There's only so many > interrupts you can generate from one NIC before the CPU wedges - and in > most cases every packet generates in interrupt. If you're using > plain-old-PCI, you get less throughput than more advanced PCI variants. > > There was a thread about this recently. Search the archives for it. the device is following eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection >This is more in line with hardware / software limitations than with a >bug in your config. The situation I was describing happened at very low CPS. > >As has transpired on the ML, you can try to boost your performances by: >- upgrading the kernel to a 2.6.20 >- change your network cards to better models that can handle more than >one packet per interrupt. I see.... I would have liked to avoid the problem with kernel parameter tuning if possible... But, I'll try the above. -- Sincerely, Mikio Kishi _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
