From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Igor_Maravi=E6?= Subject: Re: Testing server performance Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:24:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4EE242DF.2000609@candelatech.com> Reply-To: igorm@etf.rs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from mx1.etf.rs ([147.91.14.169]:40627 "EHLO mx1.etf.bg.ac.rs" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751386Ab1LLJY1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:24:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (avs2.etf.rs [147.91.14.173]) by mx1.etf.bg.ac.rs (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A771200FA for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:24:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx2.etf.bg.ac.rs ([147.91.14.170]) by localhost (avs2.etf.rs [147.91.14.171]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mugAREgGiwnt for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:24:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com (mail-gx0-f174.google.com [209.85.161.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: igorm) by mx2.etf.bg.ac.rs (Postfix) with ESMTP id E303A60138 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:24:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by ggdk6 with SMTP id k6so827811ggd.19 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:24:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EE242DF.2000609@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Check the bus speed and width on your NICs. =A0dmesg usually shows th= is > 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? I'll see what dmesg showed tomorow, because I'm not at my computer curr= ently. BR Igor