Thursday, September 29, 2011

Maximizing SQL Server Throughput with RSS Tuning - Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Running rings around your network cards.

In the end, we continued to use our “workaround” of scaling network load out to 4 NIC cards, which gave us enough network bandwidth as well as RSS CPUs to handle the heavy network traffic. You can certainly use more powerful 10Gbps NIC, but remember to configure “RSS rings” to a proper value.

Maximizing SQL Server Throughput with RSS Tuning - Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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