Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-25 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:03 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance Pete Kay wrote: Hi So

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Pete Kay pete...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am running a VOIP application on Centos 5.3.  It is a 16 core box with 12 G of mem and all what it does is passing packets. What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread John R Pierce
Pete Kay wrote: What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. 2000 * 64kbit/sec is 128Mbit/sec, not counting any additional protocol overhead are you sending and receiving this data on the same ethernet

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Pete Kay wrote: Hi, I am running a VOIP application on Centos 5.3. It is a 16 core box with 12 G of mem and all what it does is passing packets. What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. So that's about

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Tim Nelson
- Pete Kay pete...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am running a VOIP application on Centos 5.3. It is a 16 core box with 12 G of mem and all what it does is passing packets. What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Bobby
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 14:55:22 John R Pierce wrote: Pete Kay wrote: What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. 2000 * 64kbit/sec is 128Mbit/sec, not counting any additional protocol Actually if you

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread John R Pierce
Bobby wrote: On Wednesday 24 February 2010 14:55:22 John R Pierce wrote: Pete Kay wrote: What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. 2000 * 64kbit/sec is 128Mbit/sec, not counting any

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Kay
Hi So is that the limit? I have heard people being able to run like 10K call channels before max out CPU cap. Is this only possible if multiple nics are being used? Please help. pete On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:53 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Bobby wrote: On Wednesday 24

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread nate
Pete Kay wrote: Hi So is that the limit? I have heard people being able to run like 10K call channels before max out CPU cap. I would verify the network throughput of your system to make sure the NIC/switch/etc are functioning normally, I use iperf to do this, really simple tool to use just

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Todd Denniston
Pete Kay wrote, On 02/24/2010 06:08 PM: Hi So is that the limit? I have heard people being able to run like 10K call channels before max out CPU cap. were those people running g.711 or something using less bandwidth? And why are you thinking CPU cap? What is the load average (from top or

Re: [CentOS] Desperately need help with multi-core NIC performance

2010-02-24 Thread Agile Aspect
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Todd Denniston todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil wrote: Pete Kay wrote, On 02/24/2010 06:08 PM: Hi So is that the limit?  I have heard people being able to run like 10K call channels before max out CPU cap. were those people running g.711 or something