On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, John Heffner wrote:
> > Do you have any figures on (large) MTU size vs performance on a current
> > commidity system?
>
> What qualifies as large? I ran some measurements out to 9k w/GigE a few
> years ago. (Something like 100 byte increments.) I can try to find the
> data if anyone is interested. I may try to run a similar experiment on 10
> GigE with modern hardware, and I think these cards can go out to 16k as
> well.
Anything above 1500 bytes (up to 64k would be interesting).
> There are some arguments that going to much larger MTUs could be of
> substantial benefit other than CPU cycles, but this is harder to quantify.
> See <http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/>.
Thanks for the info.
- James
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