On Mon, 3 May 2004, John Reuning wrote: > In terms of performance, our Linux NFS servers tend to get sluggish when > the traffic goes much over 100 Mbps. I've tuned as much as I can, but I > don't think we'll ever get the same performance as a Netapp or FC SAN.
Been there, done that. Awesome things start happening with NFS when you move to 100% gigabit ethernet with jumbo frames. Until you're on jumbo frames, your 1500 MTU is going to fragment your NFS payload into a slow crawl at high utilization. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
