Re: Channel bonding.

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 04/22/05

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:05:57 -0500
To: Sean <seancody@gmail.com>

    Sean wrote:
    > I've been experimenting with the idea of doing channel bonding as a
    > means of improving the performance of some heavily used file servers.
    > Currently I am using a single Intel 1000MT interface on each file
    > server and it has rather lack luster performance.
    [..snip..]
    > In case anyone has any ideas I've included the 'specs' of the hardware
    > below.
    >
    > Hardware:
    > Dual Intel Xeon CPU 2.66GHz
    > Intel Server SE7501BR2 Motherboard
    > 2X 512 MB Registered ECC DDR RAM
    > 3ware 7500-12 (12x120GB, RAID-5)
    > Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port (em0,1)
    > Intel PRO/1000 MT (On board) (em2)
    >
    > Switch:
    > Extreme Black Diamond 6800
    > Gigabit Blade: G24T^3 51052
    [..snip..]

    Are the gig nics in 64bit slots? 32bit slots can slow you down a bunch.
      Also, I've seen some cases where the PCI bus itself is the bottleneck
    with multiple high-IO boards installed on the same bus.

    Eric 

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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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