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3.5.2 Performance tuning options
These steps illustrate what you should do to solve problems related to network bottlenecks:
򐂰Ensure that the network card configuration matches router and switch configurations (for
example, frame size).
򐂰Modify how your subnets are organized.
򐂰Use faster network cards.
򐂰Tune the appropriate IPV4 TCP kernel parameters. (See Chapter4, “Tuning the operating
system” on page 91.) Some security-related parameters can also improve performance,
as described in that chapter.
򐂰If possible, change network cards and recheck performance.
򐂰Add network cards and bind them together to form an adapter team, if possible.