Jeffrey A Schoolcraft wrote:
> My test machine had a gig card, through a gig switch
ah, this is new territory.
> > > I thought we should have no overhead running a DR approach.
> >
> > Shifting 100Mbps of packets requires some work, but I wouldn't have
> > expected the results you got.
> >
> > you sound like you've pushed VS-DR harder than anyone else. I wouldn't
> > have expected that the director be working any harder than if it was
> > just routing the same number of packets. So I don't know why this
> > happened.
>
> cool.
with gig network, you're the first one to find the cpu limiting. take a bow.
> >
> > I assume you have 100Mbps ethernet and 1 client. What is the throughput
> > returning to the client for each of these tests and how does that compare
> > to the throughput you get when getting the files directly from
> > the real-servers?
I'd be interested in these results, to confirm that there's nothing weird
or unaccounted for going on and that what you see is really due to LVS.
> > How does this compare to changing the LVS director to just a router for
> > the two realservers.
Joe
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