Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 4/11/2011 12:55 PM, Denny Schierz said this:
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> Am 11.04.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Michael Loftis:
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>> Most switches load balance based on MAC addresses, not IP, unless it
>> is routing the traffic as a Layer 3 switch then you can enable IP
>> based load balancing in some of those.  Also you might simply be
> 
> that was the reason, why we disabled the loadbalancer and tested with plain NICs. 
> 
>> reaching the limits of your firewall box too you haven't mentioned any
>> of it's specs, nor do you seem to have run top while running the iperf
>> tests.
> 
> The clients (who running iperf -c <ip>) had a load near zero, they are powerful machines  (Sun sparcs) with 8 cores and more. The machine, with 4 Cores (Xeon) who is running "iperf -s", had a load round about ~0.8.
> 
> No firewall etc. between the hosts, just plain network :-) 
> 
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Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of active-active ...
just a thought...

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