Ping: "the surprising result was that for nearby hosts (<< 1 ms) the > times ping gives you are more to do with ping code and CPU thread > scheduling rather than network latency." > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2008-March/005680.html I don't particularly trust ping for low latency testing ie under 1ms. If ping is over 1ms regularly or dropping packets then that's another situation. I typically see 300us back to back on machines in the lab. Occasionally I see 150us but never looked exactly into why. When I run network performance tests the test run as fast as would be expected. For network testing I've been using 3 tools - netio - simple good push button throughput test - netperf - more nobs and whistles, a bit overwhelming - ttcp - java based net test tool I want to try out iperf but just haven't gotten around to it. For netperf and ttcp, I've written some shell scripts to drive load. My ttcp scripts are a little further along capturing netstat info but ttcp has a lot of java stack overhead that influences timings. Using netperf is much lighter. With ttcp all you need, beside java, is on github https://github.com/khailey/ttcp With netperf, you will probably need to compile the client end if you want to get the stats I'm parsing in the shell script. I put the basic binaries and shell scripts up on https://github.com/khailey/netperf Also the netperf.sh script doesn't capture the netstat data which is useful for looking at retransmissions. The code from ttcp.sh could be plugged directly into netperf.sh to capture netstats, I just haven't done it yet - Kyle Hailey http://dboptimizer.com On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone have any experience with Cisco UCS servers? > > I've just been handed my first batch of them, and I'm getting ready to > install a two-node RAC. These servers are replacement for HP DL360s. I > currently have a two-node RAC running on the DL360s. The ping times on > this RAC, with bonded 1GigE NICs, are around 0.070 ms. On the new UCS > servers (10GigE "vNICs"), my ping times are in the neighborhood of 0.170. > That's about 2.4 times slower... > > I fully expected *faster* ping times for 10GigE interface.... > > So, has anyone seen something like this before? Any thoughts? Ideas? > > FYI, I also have a second two-node UCS server RAC that I'm getting ready > to set up, and it seems to have the same problem. > > Any ideas, thoughts, or suggestions, would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -Mark > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l