On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 02:20 -0800, sai narasimhamurthy wrote: > Hi, > I just do not understand why the throughputs indicated > by IPERF on a GBE LAN is so very low!!! I am speaking > of throughputs around 50-100 Mb/s!! I understand all > the optimizations of jumbo frames(I have max'd it!) > and large windows etc(which shouldnt actually matter > in a LAN since the RTTs are so very low) . The two > machines I am working on are not even 10 meters > away!!!:)) > > My iSCSI application is heavily hampered by TCP. I am > working with the 2.6.10 kernel..(has any one faced low > throughputs in a GBE with 2.6.10? let me know ) . depends on which iSCSI application you are using. There is new, very fast implementation of iSCSI Initiator for Linux kernel: www.open-iscsi.org. Take a look. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
