[Lxc-users] Network Performance
Serge Hallyn
serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Wed Nov 28 23:00:48 UTC 2012
Quoting daniel marques (daniel.marques at uniriotec.br):
> Hi Folks,
>
> Recently I've adopted LXC as a network virtualization tool, where I use the
> containers to generate traffic via iperf and do my experiments. So far,
> everything seems to be fine, but I am with doubts regarding the network
> namespace used in the containers, using it without customizing anything
> I've managed to generate up to 100Mbps of throughput, but no more than
> this. I'd like to know what can I do to have a better performance with
> these interfaces, since I've found out that using the network namespace I
> can reach up to 1Gbps.
> This is the my setup:
> Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits
> LXC 0.7.5 (installed from Ubuntu's repository)
There shouldn't be a difference between lxc and network namespaces...
When you say you reach 1Gbps with network namespaces, how are those
set up? Are they using veth? How about your lxc setup?
-serge
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