On 6/22/2012 2:22 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >> On 6/21/2012 8:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> Yes i am aware of the jumbo frame and played a bit with it in >>> openfiler thanks for reminding me that btw are you getting 600Mbps >>> with Jumbo frame? >> >> I don't use jumbo frames here because: >> >> 1. Not all the desktop NICs support it >> 2. No single host _needs_ maximum GbE throughput >> We don't do large single file transfers >> 3. The servers can hit wire speed doing parallel xfers >> without using jumbo frames >> 4. My SAN is fibre channel >> >> I have done testing with GbE and 9000 byte frames and the information I
> With reference to the Bruno point. he says it could be the bottleneck > on HD end regardless of what size of ram or Processor are we using. so > my question is have you tested > this on RAID 1? Before you even progress to the things below, you must run iperf to obtain a maximum baseline performance. That is the measure of your TCP transmit/receive throughout. Then you know what you target maximum is when you tune these other things. > as i believe read right will highly effect the performance, > > Second question is have you tested this on common SATA drives? > > 3. are you using Linux iSCSI or other sharing methods like FTP, SAMBA > etc. and if yes then how reliable iSCSI could be since i have a bit > bad experience with openfiler and iSCSI connection with XP Clients. so > i want to ask your opinion. > > 4. and the test results that you have shown are only tests or you are > working on it in productions (you know reliability is also some thing > that i need to know as i am going to be trying this in production) > > 5. would you please share some details of you SAN BOX > like HARDWARE and OS level. Let's take things one step at a time, please. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe4219d.5090...@hardwarefreak.com