We would like to speed up NFS traffic between a file server (FreeBSD with ZFS) and a compute server (Linux) and wondered if 10 gigabit ethernet was a reasonable approach. Can anyone report experience? Currently it appears that NFS traffic saturates a 1 gigabit/second link, whereas local access to files is several times as fast.
We understand that "ganging" several 1 gig ethernet ports won't speed up a single connection, only allow multiple 1 gig connections. That won't help us, since we typically would only have one (large) file open on the server. Is that right? Where would I look for 10 gigabit NICs compatible with that hardware? Vendor names? Thank you Daniel Feenberg NBER Cambridge MA _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
