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jumbo frames slow things down
Hi, I have a pc with NIC capable of doing Jumbo Frames (9K). It´s connected to a netgear GS108. The label of the GS108 says GS108GE and has serialnumb 21620C3H0025A. On the netgear site it says th...
Hi folks
I went through a whole round of trouble shooting with my Windows 7 x64bit system and realised that Jumbo Frames actually significantly reduced performance. I went from 11MB/s - 5 MB/s to (after disabling it on both server and NAS) 20MB/s - 24MB/s!
So a warning to those out there with Windows 7, its seems that setting your ReadyNAS NV+ to Jumbo frames actually reduces performance.
I am running on RAIDiator 4.1.7 [1.00a043]
Maybe the ReadyNAS team can shed some light as to why this performance "feature" doesnt seem to work well on Windows 7?
I went through a whole round of trouble shooting with my Windows 7 x64bit system and realised that Jumbo Frames actually significantly reduced performance. I went from 11MB/s - 5 MB/s to (after disabling it on both server and NAS) 20MB/s - 24MB/s!
So a warning to those out there with Windows 7, its seems that setting your ReadyNAS NV+ to Jumbo frames actually reduces performance.
I am running on RAIDiator 4.1.7 [1.00a043]
Maybe the ReadyNAS team can shed some light as to why this performance "feature" doesnt seem to work well on Windows 7?
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