NIC performance

"Vitaly Karasik" <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:22:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm running RHEL3 (2.4.21-47.ELsmp) with Broadcom NIC and BASP bonding
(bcm5700 v8.1.55)
When network traffic is ~12MB/sec (=3D=3D ~120K packets/sec) CPU system l=
oad
is growing up to 50-60%%.
Yes, I know, that small packets (~100 bytes/packet) are not optimal for
network throughput, but in the short-middle term I cannot re-write our
application.

Are there any network driver / kernel parameters which can help me to
increase network throughput?
Replacing bcm5700 to tg3? Upgrading to RHEL 4 or 5 with kernel 2.6?
Other ideas?

Thanks,
Vitaly


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