On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 23:10 +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> What I'm saying though is that it doesn't rhyme with what I've seen of
> Volanomark - we ran 2.6.16 on a 4p Intel box for instance and it didn't
> come close to saturating a Gigabit pipe before it maxed out on CPU load.
That actually supports the hypothesis doesn't it? The issue being the
increased number of ACKs causing additional CPU overhead not saturating
a NIC if any involved.
One of these days I may have to try to look more closely at what volano
does relative to netperf - I remember that someone tried very hard (was
it you alexy?) to show a perfomance effect with netperf and it didn't do
it :(
rick jones
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
