New Set of High Performance Networking Patches Available

[Darren Tucker]

Chris Rapier wrote:
[throughput]
> Yeah, thats definitely low. Can you try a loopback to your localhost and 
> dump the data into /dev/null to see what sort of limit the CPU is 
> imposing? Also, what cipher? 3des is justa nightmare. Most of our tests 
> are using arcfour and blowfish.

Tried all that.  All tests done with arcfour, same (low) throughput 
copying to /dev/null.  And as I mentioned, systems did 6MB/s throughput 
w/out the high-latency network (which was disk-to-disk).

I will probably try measuring with ttcp or netperf next.

-- 
Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4  37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69
     Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience
usually comes from bad judgement.