On Wed, 9 May 2007, Kadlecsik Jozsi wrote: > We have been testing GFS over AoE (over Gb Ethernet) and in our last test > what we tried is to untar a 38GB file with 150000 files. The process was > started two days ago and it still hasn't completed. We see that it > proceeds in creating the new files and directories, but this seems to be > way too slow. It seems we hit a hardware/driver problem related to the jumbo frame setting. Leaving out GFS, the access to the AoE device is slow from two machines using Intel 82541GI/PI cards and jumbo frames. With MTU set to 1500, the read/write performance is normal. Best regards, Jozsef -- E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster