On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
>> 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. > > have you tried using jumbo frames? you might be able to implement that with > your current hardware. We haven't tried it - our thought was that if we are able to saturate the link wit 1500 byte frames, then bigger frames wouldn't go any faster. We are still looking for a dumb, 8 port 10Gbase-T switch, but I am going to start out just linking the two machines with a crossover cable. Dan > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
