Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:14:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | Vasilios Hoffman <> | Subject | Re: Dual Ethernet Slowness Causing Lousy Benchmarks? (was: A very informative benchmark.) |
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> > Such nonscaling is absolutely unacceptable to have around - so David S. > > Miller has SMP-scaled the networking code in 2.3 already - on my box and > > 2.3.9 TCP bandwith scales almost linearly on localhost - it shows almost > > no scaling on 2.2.10. (i do not have 4 100mbit ethernet connections - yet) > > I would imagine tcp scaling is more important to the clustering people.
YES! Will the tcp/ethernet SMP scaling changes be back-ported to 2.2.x?
Thanks,
-V
P.S. This would be very useful in, oh, maybe, geez, something like a cluster of dual alphas transferring huge astronomy data files...gosh, the thought makes me shiver...mmm...
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