On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> we are planning to integrate a gigabit interface (intel e1000) in our
> fileserver (NFS) soon.
> Could one of you point out some kernel (proc) tunings i should do ?
> Or should the default settings work fine (and performant) ?
At least make the network buffers larger as is mentioned above which makes
a order of magnitude difference in performance for gigabit networks.
The Intel 4.1.7 drivers are not the latest but are the best performing
drivers under linux for these cards. Note that the 4.2.? drivers are
reported to have halved throughput for most people.[1]
Coming sunday I will replace the various broadcom gigabit cards in our
network servers since the drivers prove to be less then stellar.
Cheers
1. According to people on linux-poweredge@xxxxxxxxx grep the list
archives. there. http://lists.us.dell.com/
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