Hi,
The MTU is normally set on your network interfaces (and possibly
subsequent network devices depending on your setup) rather than in
individual applications. How you do it obviously depends on what OS
you're running. On Linux, *BSD and Solaris you'd typically do:
ifconfig [interface] mtu [value] where value is the maximum number of
bytes which can be sent in one go through that interface. So the
default 1500 means that packets will be fragmented if they exceed 1500
bytes.
I do however recommend that you do a bit of research to avoid negative
surprises such as upstream devices refusing to deal with too large
units etc!
Cheers,
Erik
On 4 May 2008, at 00:59, Dongni Chen wrote:
Hi,
I understand the network impact. So if we already considered the
network issue, and still want to increase the MTU size, is there an
option to turn on bigger MTU size?
Thanks!
Dogni
----- Original Message ----
From: Tomash Brechko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2008 9:11:26 AM
Subject: Re: memcached udp datagram size and noreply option support
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:25:35 -0700, Dongni Chen wrote:
> I am currently running memcached 1.2.4 and want to use "Set" with
> "noreply" option. But seems it doesn't support. Shall I move to
> 1.2.5 to get this feature?
Yes, noreply is supported starting with memcached 1.2.5.
> I am also use udp mode, and found out even for a data size that is
> about 1.9k, I am getting 2 datagrams. I used memcached -vv, and it
> says when in udp mode, the sendbuf is 268435456.
Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) is still limited to some smaller value,
likely 1500 bytes. Though it's possible to increase it up to 64KB,
doing so will likely have strong negative effect on your network. In
other words, better to leave it as is, and deal with multiple packets,
or switch back to TCP. If you are trying to save on TCP connection
establishing, it would be better to think about ways to cache and
reuse the connection.
--
Tomash Brechko
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