From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: igorm@etf.rs
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing server performance
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:32:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE63AA6.2090402@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFdo_mU-CHP0tyScF_ZmZJHeSuC6MEgASTZ+h2JWyumTn=sqqw@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/12/2011 01:24 AM, Igor Maravić wrote:
>> Check the bus speed and width on your NICs. dmesg usually shows this
>> 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 Bus
> 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 currently.
> BR
> Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 15:26 Testing server performance Igor Maravić
2011-12-09 17:18 ` Ben Greear
2011-12-12 9:24 ` Igor Maravić
2011-12-12 17:32 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2011-12-12 9:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 9:45 ` Igor Maravić
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