On Thursday, December 02, 2010 08:28 PM, Peter Kjellström wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:22:38 Christopher Chan wrote: > > > On Thursday, December 02, 2010 06:53 PM, Peter Kjellström wrote: > > > > For completeness (since many previous posts have touched on this), we > > > > don't use jumbo frames since we have no problem reaching wirespeed with > > > > normal 1500 frames. > > > > > > Seriously? What switches? > > Mostly procurve, but really, 1G eth goes wirespeed almost regardless > what you do to it nowadays. In fact, I can run wirespeed 10G eth through > our cisco, procurve and bladnetworks without going jumbo. I have HP Procurves too and I don't get wirespeed... I'll run an artificial benchmark...maybe it's disk i/o in the way. > > IMO lots of people waste time on jumbo frames when there's really no (or > very little) need. > Maybe...