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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Bergs <flygong@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The network performance of linux
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:20:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020321052008.GA2871@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020321051219.9811.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:12:19PM -0800, Bergs wrote:
> 
>  I work on a linux 2.2.14 kernel to test the network
> throughput of a linux  box used as a firewall.
> 
>  I find that when the IP packet length is 512B,the
> throughput is the highest 71%. IP packet length is
> smaller than 512B or bigger than 512B,the throughput
> is the lower.
> 
>    I don't know why this ? Can I have some solutions
> to improve the throughput of linux box ?
> 
> 

You'll need to post much more info about your hardware.

start with lspci and /proc/cpuinfo...

Also you didn't say how fast each packet size actually was, and did you use
a switch or what other type of network hardware.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-21  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-21  5:12 The network performance of linux Bergs
2002-03-21  5:20 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-03-21  9:05 ` David Schwartz
2002-03-21 20:42 ` Mark

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