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Re: [Xen-users] slow network throughput, how to improve?


  • To: Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:29:05 +0200
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Richie <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/24/2010 03:03 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>
>>                                                    100% 1163MB
>> 29.1MB/s   00:40
>>
>>
>> iperf indicates that the network throughput is about 930MB though:
>>
>> root@zaxen01:[~]$ iperf -s
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Server listening on TCP port 5001
>> TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> [  4] local 196.34.x.x port 5001 connected with 196.34.x.x port 45453
>> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
>> [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes    935 Mbits/sec
>>
>
> 29.1MB/s (megabytes) is 232.8 megabit. Yes, you still have room for
> improvement in that regard.  You said sata drives, but what spec.?  Any idea
> on your throughput for your source/destinatation hard drives?  Would they
> both sustain higher than 29.9MB/s ?
>
> _______________________________________________


Hi Richie,

zaxen01:
Seagate ST31000340AS 1GB HDD,

and zaxen02:
root@zaxen02:[~]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3250318AS      Rev: HP11
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: ST3250318AS      Rev: HP11
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

These drives are setup in software RAID1

Some more testing:

zaxen01, with 1x SATAII HDD, 8GB RAM, Core2Quad CPU, Intel Server
grade motherboard:

root@zaxen01:[~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 12.2736 seconds, 83.4 MB/s


zaxen02, with 2x SATAII HDD setup in software RAID1, 8GB RAM,
Core2Quad CPU, SuperMicro Server grade motherboard:

root@zaxen02:[~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 6.0765 seconds, 169 MB/s


Inhouse server, with 2x SATAII HDD in software RAID1, 2GB RAM,
Core2Duo CPU, using Gigabyte motherboard:

[root@intranet ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1000000
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 10.381 seconds, 98.6 MB/s




-- 
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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