Anyone have any experience with JUMBO frames?

Hello,

I work with a company that has a lot of files that are between 10mb to
500mb. They'd like me to see if I an improve their speed for file
transfers. I have a new 2900 server with RAID 5 across 8 SAS drives and
performance is not bad but I'm considering going with jumbo frames for
network traffic to see if that helps. Anyone here have any experience -
positive or negative?


Thanks

You need to have a switch able to manage jumbo frames.

You may congest your switch, as your workstations don't do jumbo. So the
switch will have to split it.

This is useful when all invoked computers accept jumbo frames.

I won't do that up to now. Do you have graph on your network cards bandwith
?
Are you using gigabit ?
Big files doesn't mean high transfer speed. You need to watch the bandwitch
usage, fragmentation...

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Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


"Boe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I work with a company that has a lot of files that are between 10mb to
> 500mb. They'd like me to see if I an improve their speed for file
> transfers. I have a new 2900 server with RAID 5 across 8 SAS drives and
> performance is not bad but I'm considering going with jumbo frames for
> network traffic to see if that helps. Anyone here have any experience -
> positive or negative?
>
>
> Thanks
>