[c-nsp] Performance issue on link

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Mon Apr 1 20:37:45 EDT 2013


Sorry - Forgot to add:

POP A -> POP B - only requires 8 sessions, but POP B -> POP A requires 25 sessions to achieve ~38Mb?



> From: cisconsp_list at hotmail.com
> To: td_miles at yahoo.com; azher at hep.caltech.edu
> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:28:50 +1100
> CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Performance issue on link
> 
> Thanks Tony - With multiple sessions (8), I can achieve ~38Mb/sec consistently.
> 
> Is it simply not feasible to expect ~40Mb with a single tcp transfer (Without significant adjustments to both Linux servers?)
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:10:42 -0700
> > From: td_miles at yahoo.com
> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Performance issue on link
> > To: cisconsp_list at hotmail.com; azher at hep.caltech.edu
> > CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > 
> > Try using multiple TCP sessions  "iperf -P 5"  (note - capital "P").
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > Tony.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: CiscoNSP List <cisconsp_list at hotmail.com>
> > > To: Azher Mughal <azher at hep.caltech.edu>
> > > Cc: "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2013 9:51 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Performance issue on link
> > > 
> > >T hanks - Ill check them out now
> > > 
> > >>  Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:16:36 -0700
> > >>  From: azher at hep.caltech.edu
> > >>  To: cisconsp_list at hotmail.com
> > >>  CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > >>  Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Performance issue on link
> > >> 
> > >>  These might be helpful:
> > >> 
> > >>  http://fasterdata.es.net/network-tuning/
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > > http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Performance_Tuning_Guide_for_Mellanox_Network_Adapters.pdf
> > >> 
> > >>  -Azher
> > >> 
> > >>  On 4/1/2013 3:51 PM, CiscoNSP List wrote:
> > >>  > Hi,
> > >>  >
> > >>  > We have a 40Mb link between 2 POPs - Latency ~65m/sec (No packet-loss)
> > >>  >
> > >>  > POP A Is a 7301 and 2960POP B is a 7200 and 4948
> > >>  >
> > >>  > 40Mb link is connected to the two switches (L2), and then a trunk link 
> > > to both routers for all L3.
> > >>  >
> > >>  > Have a Linux server connected to both switches, and achieve the 
> > > following performance:
> > >>  >
> > >>  > IPERF (UDP)
> > >>  > POP A -> POP B - 38.5Mb/secPOP B -> POP A - 38.5Mb/sec
> > >>  >
> > >>  > IPERF (TCP)
> > >>  > POP A -> POP B - ~20Mb/secPOP B -> POP A - ~12Mb/sec
> > >>  >
> > >>  > FTP
> > >>  > POP A -> POP B - ~38Mb/secPOP B -> POP A - ~16Mb/sec
> > >>  >
> > >>  > WGET
> > >>  > POP A -> POP B - ~30Mb/sec POP B -> POP A - ~16Mb/sec
> > >>  >
> > >>  > Any suggestions on why I am seeing poor performance with TCP 
> > > transfers? (Especially POP B -> POP A direction) - I've tried adjusting 
> > > the window size in IPERF but it actually made the results worse?
> > >>  > Thanks in advance.
> > >>  >
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