Oct 28, 2025

The noticeable difference now that each is independently the same, is that the load is well balanced. However the performance is not cumulative at all. It was almost identical to a single NIC, with bandwidth utilization at about 1.2 on each NIC. Hardware utilization is otherwise the same as on a single, plenty of usable RAM (which it will use if it needs it), barely touching the SSD (periodic flush to keep RAM low), 30-40% CPU, plenty of threads available and allocated. Nothing interesting in the heatmap. This indicates that it's still network limited, which is consistent with the current multi-homed setup.