see http://pdsf.nersc.gov/talks/spxxl-2002/linux-nfs-performance.pdf There are a few others out there, but I cannot find them now. Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > > We're running Jumbo frames to the client, but I don't have any > performance numbers before and we can't switch it back > right now (it's in production). Sorry. > > Jeff > > > Joseph Landman wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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