Google about for jumbo frames and NFS. Reduces the interrupt load, so that heavy remote I/O doesn't satuate the CPU. There was a performance paper running around, and it had some good data. Chris Dagdigian wrote: > > Someone writing a feature request to add jumbo frame support to the > TCP/IP stack for Mac OS X is looking around for real world 'before and > after' performance data. > > People seem happy doing jumbo frames in switch-to-switch > configurations with homogenous network hardware but has anyone enabled > this out to client hosts in one of their clusters? I've only done this > as a way to get familiar with the management interfaces on various > bits of hardware and have never left the settings enabled for any > length of time or in a real production environment. > > Any stories or data to share? > > -Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615