Re: tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-02 Thread bruce . labitt
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/01/2009 10:44:17 PM: On 10/01/2009 08:36 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Any suggestions? Places to look? Guess it is time for wireshark... Anything else? Are you supporting jumbo frames all the way through your stack? No. I can't get the

Re: tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-02 Thread bruce . labitt
I tried netpipe-tcp aka NPtcp between the nodes. Made an interesting graph. It shows that my system doesn't exceed 100Mbps unless the message size is greater than ~2K bytes. If the message size is over 16K, then the network can deliver 300Mbps. At a 1MB message the throughput is ~ 600Mbps.

Re: tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: Where is the value (and what is it called) that stores the tcp buffer size?  Is it in sysctl.conf? http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+tcp+buffer+size -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-02 Thread bruce . labitt
cute... done that search... fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/linux.html www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html above links talk a lot about it, but don't offer the hows and why's to find the best settings... http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/howto/tcp.html is a little better.

tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-01 Thread Bruce Labitt
Have a client-server app that is set up to communicate over a local Gbit network. The bottleneck appears in the client to server uplink for large payloads. At this point it isn't clear where the delay is, (client or server side) but the sustained rate is not good enough. Can anyone recommend

Re: tweaking sockets / OS parameters for speed

2009-10-01 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 10/01/2009 08:36 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Any suggestions? Places to look? Guess it is time for wireshark... Anything else? Are you supporting jumbo frames all the way through your stack? -Bill P.S. if you reply to a message and change the subject, the In-Reply-To headers are preserved,