I am also guessing you might be actually using only one of the gigabit links even though you have two available. I assume you have configured the equal-cost-multi-path (ECMP) IP routes between the two hosts correctly; even then, ECMP, as implemented in most IP stacks (not sure if there is an RFC for this), really works if you are reaching the same destination network but two different hosts. For example, ECMP would use one link to reach 10.0.0.1 and another to reach 10.0.0.2, both on the 10.0.0.0/24 network. In your case, there is only one end host, so your IP stack might be actually using one link all the time.

On 8/22/06, Galen M. Shipman <gshipman@lanl.gov> wrote:

Jayanta,

What is your bus on this machine? If it is PCI-X 133 you are going to be
limited, also memory bandwidth could also be the bottleneck.

Thanks,

Galen

Jayanta Roy wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In between two nodes I have dual Gigabit ethernet full duplex links. I was
>doing benchmarking using non-blocking MPI send and receive. But I am
>getting only speed corresponds to one Gigabit ethernet full duplex link
>(< 2Gbps). I have checked using ifconfig, this transfer is using both the
>ports, then why I am not getting full throughput from dual Gigabit
>ethernet ports? Can anyone please help me in this?
>
>Regards,
>Jayanta
>
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