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> We are hyper-threaded with 8 effective processor, does that make a
> difference? (We found the same thing in Google).
My little experience with HT shows poor performance I/O-wise (worse than
linear scaling, of course, since there was contention -- but this is on
one-year old hardware now), so I would _suspect_ that HT would not help
w.r.t. nfsd count.
> We are having some packet receive errors but nobody can tell us why.
> If there are other ideas on how to tell whether the network card
> is saturated, let me know.
Hopefully others who are more knowledgeable can chime in with better
information in this area...
> No, no jumbo frames.. NFS howto says with TCP this size is OK.
Yeah, sorry, brain fart there. :) Future Googlers: [fake spooky voice] ignore
the suggestion to check MTU size [/voice]
Dan W.
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