[TriLUG] NAS box

[John Reuning]

I'm not sure I understand.  I thought that netapp filers performed several
times better than Linux nfs servers, even in a 1500 mtu environment --
clients on 100 Mb links, filer on either a copper or fibre Gb link.

Thanks,

-jrr

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Magnus Hedemark wrote:

> 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.
> 
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