From: "Didier CONTIS" Subject: RE: Pb of optimization for a Cluster under Gigabit Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:38:20 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200404072038.i37KcKgE008514@mail.ece.gatech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBJpN-0004xD-JO for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:39:17 -0700 Received: from mail.ece.gatech.edu ([199.77.227.200]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BBJpN-0006iQ-AX for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:39:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (bigzilla.ece.gatech.edu [130.207.225.103]) by mail.ece.gatech.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i37KdEat008632 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:39:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.ece.gatech.edu ([199.77.227.200]) by localhost (bigzilla.ece.gatech.edu [130.207.225.103]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20788-06 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:39:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from darkwolf (darkwolf.ee.gatech.edu [130.207.226.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ece.gatech.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i37KcKgE008514 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:38:20 -0400 (EDT) To: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: >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. While most of 90% of the hardware supports it, I have some legacy hardware (nodes and switch) still running at 100Mbit connected to the stack of 3750. Thanks - Didier. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs