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Improving Server Performance

Issue 93

From Issue #93
January 2002

Jan 01, 2002  By Chen Chen and David Griego
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How to improve your server's performance by offloading a TCP/IP stack from a Linux-based server onto an iNIC.
Acknowledgements

Technical contributors: Dave Jiang, Dan Thompson, Jeff Curry, Sharon Baartmans, Don Harbin and Scott Goble.

Chen Chen is doing research on advanced I/O applications at Intel. He can be reached at chen.chen@intel.com.

David Griego has been a Linux enthusiast for more than three years. He works at Intel in Advance Development Engineering. He can be reached at david.a.griego@intel.com.

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The most efficient way to Improve Linux Server Performance

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 13:11.

Install TrustLeap G-WAN: it's free.

It does the job with million times less servers than IIS 7.0 .Net C# (same story with Apache PHP or GlassFish Java).

http://gwan.ch/

Segmentation Offload

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/28/2007 - 09:18.

Hi,
thanks for this useful article.
I'm a linux user and I'm looking at the network device drivers.
I've seen a few NICs support the TCP segmentation offload (as HW function), UFO etc.
But I've not clear if the GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload) can actually improve the network performance.
What do you think about the GSO performance?
Many thanks.

PS: in the end is the GSO a sw support?

Re: Kernel Korner: Improving Server Performance

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Submitted by markhahn (not verified) on Fri, 05/10/2002 - 02:00.

what was the tested configuration? what host MB/CPU/OS? how was the "dumb" nic configured? what's the nature of these "scripts" in the workload?

without mentioning any of these things, the article is mere marketing fluff, and quite disappointing for LJ.

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