On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:26:31PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:49 PM +1000 2005-10-20, Michael VInce wrote:
> The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am assuming
> they are on the best bus available.
In my experience, the terms "Dell" and "best ava
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote:
Are you by any chance using PCI NIC's? PCI Bus is limited to somewhere
around 1 Gbit/s. So if you consider; Theoretical maxium = ( 1Gbps -
pci_overhead )
The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am
assuming they are on the best
Hi,
I work at an ISP with some 250 Dell machines.
We started with Silver support on non critical machines and Gold
support on the critical ones.
When someone at Gold says: "Sorry, can't find your tag number..." We
had several official apologies from Dell and upgraded all the machines
to Platinum
At 9:57 AM -0500 2005-10-20, Karl Denninger wrote:
Other than that, I've been pretty happy with their stuff. Sure beats a lot
of other "PC" vendors out there in terms of reliability, heat management,
BIOS updates, etc.
Have you tried Rackable or IronSystems? I've heard that they've
been
I think that's unfair.
I have a couple of Dell machines and my biggest complaint with them has been
their use of proprietary bolt patterns for their motherboards and similar
tomfoolery, preventing you from migrating their hardware as your needs grow.
This also guarantees that your $75 power suppl
At 10:49 PM +1000 2005-10-20, Michael VInce wrote:
The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am assuming
they are on the best bus available.
In my experience, the terms "Dell" and "best available" very
rarely go together.
Dell has made a name for themselves by shippi
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:
Michael VInce wrote:
I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest.
I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and
noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP
kernel.
As with the network setup ( A --- B
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote:
Interestingly when testing from the gateway it self (B) direct to server
(C) having 'net.isr.direct=1' slowed down performance to 583mbits/sec
net.isr.direct works to improve performance in many cases because it (a)
reduces latency, and (b) reduces C
Here is my probably final round of tests that I thought could possible
be useful to others.
I have enabled polling on the interfaces and discovered some of the
master secret holy grail sysctls that really make this stuff work.
I now get over 900mbits/sec router performance with polling.
Havin
Here is my probably final round of tests that I thought could possible
be useful to others.
I have enabled polling on the interfaces and discovered some of the
master secret holy grail sysctls that really make this stuff work.
I now get over 900mbits/sec router performance with polling.
Havin
Michael VInce wrote:
> I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest.
>
> I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and
> noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP
> kernel.
>
> As with the network setup ( A --- B --- C ) with serve
Robert Watson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote:
I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple
'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out
of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in
case some one can help
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote:
I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple
'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of
the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some
one can help me with my problems or
Hey all,
I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple
'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of
the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case
some one can help me with my problems or if others are just interested
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