From: Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: Pb of optimization for a Cluster under Gigabit
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:40:47 +0200 (CEST)
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On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Didier CONTIS wrote:

> Would anyone have any suggestions or recommendations ? Should
> I switch rsize / wsize to 1024 ?

If the network cards and switch allow it, you could try first using 
Jumbo (9k) Ethernet frames; in such a setup, the 8k NFS packets would 
most likely travel unfragmented between server and clients.

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Bogdan Costescu

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