[Lxc-users] Network Performance

[Serge Hallyn]

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