From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sonny Subject: Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 Traffic Controller Performance Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:30:02 +0800 Message-ID: <9dbec86d0710021730g2cfaeb16o7057700b970f7e8d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.225]:61435 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753528AbXJCAaO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:30:14 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so3805583wxd for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello I hope this is the right place to ask this.Does any know if there is a substantial difference in the performance of the traffic controller between kernel 2.4 and 2.6. We tested it using 1 iperf server and use 250 and 500 clients, altering the burst. We use the top command to check the idle time of our router to see this. The results we got from the 2.4 kernel shows around 65-70% idle time while the 2.6 shows 60-65% idle time. We tried to use MRTG and we're not getting any results either. We want to know if we could improve the bandwidth by upgrading the kernel, else we would have to get a new bandwidth manager. Could anyone have the similar test regarding this or suggest a better way to do this. Thanks in advance.