OpenVZ Network speed

LinuxGam

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Hi All,

I am new to this forum and relatively new to Proxmox, so Hi!. I think the product is absolutely awesome and one of the best Open Source bits of software ever! I have managed to get myself through all the usual noob problems, by googling stuff and am learning loads along the way. I am now stuck on this so need some advice on where to go next.

The server is a brand new Xeon 5 with loads of RAM and hardware raid etc and currently has zero load on it as I am configuring it ready to move from my old server. If I download a 10Gb file from a set internet location with the host using wget it downloads at over 100M/s, the same file from the guest is at 10M/s the whole time the CPU is barely touched, I have set the container to max resources in case was CPU. I have tried the guest with a basic VeNet and a basic bridged Veth.

Saving to: `10Gb.dat.1'

100%[=========================================================>] 1,250,000,000 109M/s in 11s

2013-10-06 18:47:32 (108 MB/s) - `10Gb.dat.1' saved [1250000000/1250000000]

I have ran an iperf from the guest to the host thinking it's bound to be something to do with the connection speed between the two and it hit about 4Gb/sec!

I also did a trace route in case the guest using a different IP took some weird and wacky route.... but it took the same route except the extra hop to the server. I have checked there appears to be no tc traffic control set up and I can't use ethtool etc on virtual nics to set their port speed. What's weird is it seems to always run at what looks like a close to 100mbs speed hence just over 10M/s.

It's running pve-manager/3.1-17/eb90521d (running kernel: 2.6.32-25-pve)
The network card is an Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection

If any one has any ideas I would be greatly appreciated as I bought the server, to get the extra bandwidth, which I don't seem to be able to get from the guests.


Thanks

LG
 
Don't worry about this for now.... after trying millions of different things, I have come up with a comparison I can use to prove it's my hosting providers routing somehow for the different IP's as if I pick somewhere in the same data center they both run full speed!

Still pleased to be here and hope to learn more as I go :)
 

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