Hi Mike, Jumbo frames does help for GlusterFS too. Because it reduces the latency in Gig/E connections by a margin. It doesn't need any changes in GlusterFS setting. Regards, Amar On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:38 AM, <mtaggart at envoydirect.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am currently converting my AoE/GFS setup over to GlusterFS. So far I have > been very impressed with Gluster and am loving it's ease of use. I wrestled > with GFS for days, and still do too much IMO. ;) > > I had a question about TCP/IP settings. I know Infiniband as interconnects > would give us the best performance, but we currently do not have the budget > to upgrade everything, so I am going to use a dedicated Gig switch along > with a dedicated nic on each machine to access the Gluster cluster. With > AoE, we were using jumbo frames on the switch and had each machine's MTU > setting at 9000. I think by default most network cards put the MTU at 1500 > or so. > > With GlusterFS is it more advantageous to use a higher MTU setting and/or > jumbo frames? For some background we are using Gluster in a webserver > environment and I would say the majority of use on the file system is reads > and writes of smaller files < 100K. I am not sure if this makes a difference > as far as the settings though. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20080602/c8e8d837/attachment.htm
