Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'm wondering, that since Jumbo Frames was supposed to be better for > bulk transfers, why am I seeing these results? Is it the ElRepo > drivers I used to enable higher MTUs or possibly some kind of oddity > with the realtek NICs I am using? Or am I mistaken about the benefits > of jumbo frames and that they are only beneficial in specific > configurations, perhaps only with higher network speeds and enough > packets at 1500 MTU to overwhelm packet handling hardware? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > I googled about Jumbo Frames ("jumbo frames impact") and 2 top hits are very interesting: http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html http://www.chelsio.com/jumbo_enet_frames.html I guess if you are not happy with speed provided by Realtek you should definitely buy more expensive NIC's with support of 9000K packets. Ljubomir