Hi,
(Note: this is not specific to LXC, but it is related to network
namespaces, so I thought that this might be the best place to get some
help. If I'm wrong, feel free to redirect me elsewhere!)
While doing a bunch of TCP speed tests with containers, I noticed the
following: when running in virtual machines (tested with KVM and
VirtualBox), transfer speeds between containers are much slower than
expected.
I tested with "iperf -s" on one end, "iperf -c $other_end -i 1" on the
other end.
Here are the results:
- local test on physical machine (through localhost): 40 Gb/s
- container-to-container on physical machine: 25 Gb/s
- local test on virtual machine: 30 Gb/s
- container-to-container on virtual machine: 600 Mb/s
I thought that it could be a problem with the bridging, so I also tested to
connect containers directly with a pair of veth interfaces. Results were
slightly better (1 Gb/s) but still waaaay below what I expected.
Is this expected? (I think it's not; but I might be missing some essential
point about virtual machines here.)
I wrote a handful of scripts to easily test the different scenarios:
https://gist.github.com/jpetazzo/6645281
I don't know if it's a problem with the network namespaces or the veth
device (I'm considering trying an elaborated test with multiple physical
interfaces to rule veth out of the equation, but I don't have the required
hardware here).
All ideas are welcome!
--
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