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Re: Network issue

From	Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Network issue
Date	2018-08-29 22:40 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:00 PM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 01:18:52PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > Hi, I've never used OVH. How certain are you that the e1000 network driver
> > is the correct one?
> > Under VMWare/ESX the network driver choice can be crucial, for example.
>
> 1) You cannot run Xen in VSphere/ESXi.

I didn't suggest that one could. Only that network driver choice is
crucial to network
performance in a virtual setting. Hence I wrote "For example".

> 2) No sane public provider will use VSphere/ESXi for hosting, the costs
> can dim a budget of a small country.

See above. I'm a customer, I'm familiar with the costs.

> 3) e1000e may be bad, but vmxnet3 will make oom-killer an everyday
> reality. SR-IOV is a way to go.

You simply can't get good high-level throughput using e1000 under ESX.
But that wasn't the
point. Instead it was that driver selection and config can be crucial
in a virtual env.

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Re: Network issue Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-29 21:10 +0200
  Re: Network issue Fekete Tamás <fektom@gmail.com> - 2018-08-29 21:30 +0200
    Re: Network issue Fekete Tamás <fektom@gmail.com> - 2018-08-29 21:50 +0200
    Re: Network issue Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2018-08-30 00:40 +0200
  Re: Network issue Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-08-29 22:40 +0200
    Re: Network issue Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-30 06:30 +0200
  Re: Network issue Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-30 00:50 +0200
    Re: Network issue Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-30 06:40 +0200
      Re: Network issue Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-30 12:40 +0200
        Re: Network issue Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-30 13:00 +0200

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