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Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance

2010-06-09 12:11:39
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Setup two NIC's to improve performance
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:09:38 +0100
Doh! I missed the big B, and I'm a network engineer. No donut for me!

Tyler

On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:47:48 Bruce wrote:
> Oh, umn sorry.
> 
> I should have been more clear.  I was trying to say 100 megabyte (MB)
> per second.  Not mbit (mb).
> 
> I've actually seen 109MB/s on a couple of intel nics here.
> 
> Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 June 2010 16:07:32 Bruce wrote:
> >> Some notes on this though.  A good professional 1GB nic can push about
> >> 100/MBs.  Often you will run into CPU or HD bottlenecks before you get
> >> this far unless you've got a pretty decent cpu and  some type of raid hd
> >> setup.
> >
> > I have a no-name server with a 3-ware SATA RAID controller and two
> > gigabit ethernet interfaces. Between two servers on the same gigabit LAN,
> > using default 1500-byte MTU, copying between disks, I can push 200 mbit.
> > Just testing UDP with iperf I can easily hit 400 mbit.
> >
> > Gigabit should sustain 600 mbit. If you're seeing 100 mbit, keep
> > investigating.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tyler
> 
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