Willy, > The rest is "just" kernel parameter tuning. I'm thinking about > writing a tuning guide for 2.6 kernels. I've once again been > contacted by a big site this week-end which was dying under load > because the sysctls had not been tuned, and that's a shame :-/
I'd be very interested in how you attained these speeds (specific kernel, specific tuning parameters). A guide would be great, but it's not necessarily essential. We're seeing packet dropping issues in lab, well before we reach wire speed. Perhaps it's network card / driver related (e1000), and not kernel related. Anything you could share before you've written the guide would be much appreciated. -JohnF
