On Thu, 4 May 2000, shane wrote:
> How much could the CPU load affect the numbers, most of the tests were run
> on the machines while theye were activly doing other stuff. But while on
> the private ethernet segments the ethernets wen't being used by any other
> process, but the machines were busy doing other processing? This is a
> PentiumPro200 System, any idea how much ethernet load it should be able to
> take?
How much system load was it under during the tests? If the load were high
enough, it could indeed explain this.
Have you tried using that 3Com NIC yet?
Another thing to try: fire up two or more netperf sessions simultaneously,
and see whether the bottleneck is per-connection or systemwide.
James.
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