[TriLUG] NFS performance issues - Solved

[martyferg at nc.rr.com]

heheheheh


It's called testing requirements per the spec,
and most of the vendors don't bother.

Ship it...

M

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Johnson <mike at enoch.org>
Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NFS performance issues - Solved

> Kevin Flanagan [kevin at flanagannc.net] wrote:
> > I did some testing today, apparently it was the Nortel switch 
> and the HP
> > onboard NIC interaction.  I have seen a lot of cases with the Nortel
> > gear we have where setting the NIC to auto doesn't work right, 
> you have
> > to set it to 100Mb/Full Duplex by hand.  
> > 
> > Is it just me, or does this sound like crap to others?  Why do 
> we have
> > auto if some combinations of vendor gear don't work right?  I 
> never had
> > this problem with Cisco switches and HP servers.
> 
> You got lucky.  I've seen this problem with Cisco switches before. 
> It's
> annoying as hell, but it does happen.  Auto speed and duplex settings
> are a negotiation, and unfortunately doesn't always work.  Frankly,
> you're lucky that this is the first time you've run into it.
> 
> Mike
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