I've a F740 running 5.3.4R3 with a Matrox Quad card connected on a CISCO
5509 (trunking mode)
I've create a vif in multi mode. I've selected on my network 4 clients (HP running 10.20) using each a separated port on the quad card thanks to their MAC address (best case). Everybody is 100 Meg Full Duplex configured (no autoneg).
The test I run is copying a 100 Mb file from each client to the filer, and the perf I've got are:
Hostname: eauze Bytes: 104857600 Elapsed time: 43.281 (043281 msec), KBytes/s = 2365.93
Hostname: mimizan Bytes: 104857600 Elapsed time: 44.328 (044328 msec), KBytes/s = 2310.05
Hostname: orlu Bytes: 104857600 Elapsed time: 40.493 (040493 msec), KBytes/s = 2528.83
Hostname: tarascon Bytes: 104857600 Elapsed time: 41.819 (041819 msec), KBytes/s = 2448.65
The NFS calls/s varies from 200 to 1800 only during the copies.
It seems that all the ports "share" a 10 Mb bandwith (peak I reach with a single client test).
Can I expect more from such a configuration?
PS: We got many "Bus overruns" errors on each interfaces.