Add more Lan Cable will speed up User Access Time or not

[nicsopon]

Hello

The server is too busy. If I add 1 more lan cable it will speed up the access time or not. The server is:


HP Prolian DL 185 G5 - 2 Quadcore Opteron CPU - 4 GB ECC Ram - GB. Lan Port

The HP Support told me that I have to use a command that he is not sure. It should be
TRIM OR BIND PORT.

Please give more usage of which command I should use to make the server can use both 2 Gigb. Ports together.

Thanks & Best Regards

[jissh]

Basically you want to bridge the nics?

[scsi]

Unless your over utilizing that port it is going to do nothing for you. I would love to see some bandwidth graphs that you are using that port 100% to cause that.

[nicsopon]

Yes. I would like to bridge the 2 ports together to work as 1 Port.

Another way, If I assign another IP to the second Lan Port/Cable it will meet this requirement or must have another manual management?

The load average is over 60% now at peak time and used about 25% of Swap File (4 GB). I will add more 8 GB of rams too.

I hope all process will make the server more powerfull.

Thanks & Best Regards

[scsi]

wtf does load have to do with adding another nic?

[jissh]

wtf does load have to do with adding another nic?

Beats me, me thinks he's confused. If your really hung up on adding adding another connection and bridging it there is a few good how to's I found on Google but I don't think this will help you in this case.

[frankc420]

Yes. I would like to bridge the 2 ports together to work as 1 Port.

Another way, If I assign another IP to the second Lan Port/Cable it will meet this requirement or must have another manual management?

The load average is over 60% now at peak time and used about 25% of Swap File (4 GB). I will add more 8 GB of rams too.

I hope all process will make the server more powerfull.

Thanks & Best Regards

Your most likely getting the 60% usage because of the swap space usage. Anytime you hit the HD as memory usage the I/O is going to cause your CPU usage to spike as well. Add 8GB ram to that server and your problems will disappear.

Now for your network question, I would highly recommend bridging your ports, but only if your going into two different switches that tie your network together, otherwise, what's the point?

[nicsopon]

Your most likely getting the 60% usage because of the swap space usage. Anytime you hit the HD as memory usage the I/O is going to cause your CPU usage to spike as well. Add 8GB ram to that server and your problems will disappear.

Now for your network question, I would highly recommend bridging your ports, but only if your going into two different switches that tie your network together, otherwise, what's the point?

In easy word, I would like to add one more lan cable in a free gb. server port. I would like these 2 ports help each other in the same task to make the server response all request faster.

Anyway, the cable will come from the same switch in the same rack.

Thanks & Best Regards

[nobaloney]

It's highly unlikely that even a terrabyte fiber connection between your switch and your server would resolve any speed/response issues for your webserver.

Why? Because the Internet itself is the slow point in the connection.

If you were using even a 100 gb connection that a single ethernet port can provide, your connection to the net, at the cheapest rates, would be about $3,000 per month.

Jeff