[TriLUG] NAS box

[Magnus Hedemark]

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.