two NICs - channel bonding - tradeoff

[rssr@iota.lncc.br]

Hi
We have a small cluster with 8 nodes 2 FastEthernet NICs per node.
Here are our number with CHannel Bonding running NAS benchmark with two Hub's.
At mu poitn of view they are GOOD!!!!
If sameoene have any kind of comment please let me know.
We are running the Class B and C by now.

----------------CG Class=A   ---------------------
           without CHB                with CHB
             
     	  Time (s)	Mop/s	      Time (s)      Mop/s

NP = 2   185.29      8.08         47.23        31.69
           

NP = 4	  111.82     13.38         33.13         45.17


NP = 8	  108.59     13.78         34.00         44.01


Renato
Renato Simoes Silva
Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica LNCC-CNPq

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