From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Testing server performance Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:32:22 -0800 Message-ID: <4EE63AA6.2090402@candelatech.com> References: <4EE242DF.2000609@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: igorm@etf.rs Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:35539 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753520Ab1LLRc2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:32:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/12/2011 01:24 AM, Igor Maravi=C4=87 wrote: >> Check the bus speed and width on your NICs. dmesg usually shows thi= s >> info when the interfaces are first detected. >> >> If you can, try some Intel NICs..they will usually run wire speed >> if the motherboard is reasonably fast. >> >> Thanks, >> Ben > > Thanks for the advice. > I' ll see if I can find some Intel NICs. > > NIC's specs says that they support 32-bit 33/66MHz clock speed PCI Bu= s > Master operation. > Should that be enough? No, probably not. Your motherboard may only be 32/32mhz as well? You really need pci-e (or high-end pci-x) for good 1Gbps performance. On any modern system, use pci-e nics if you can. Thanks, Ben > > I'll see what dmesg showed tomorow, because I'm not at my computer cu= rrently. > BR > Igor > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --=20 Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com