>> During heavy disk reads, I get a 14% drop in packet throughput,
> but no increase in packet loss. So, in theory, this should
> just mean approx 14% drop in NFS performance.
I thought you were writing ... disk writing is different than reading ...
isn't it ?
Dave
>> This suggests that the problem is not actually in the networking
> layers, but higher up. However, I don't have much faith in the
> NICs anyway, so I'll hold off any further tweaking until I get
> better NICs.
>> Later,
> Kenn
>>>
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