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Pro Pioneer NFS performance problem
For as long as I've had it I've been using NFS on the Pro Pioneer to serve video files to various media players in my house (a Dune HD Base 3.0, a TViX 4100, a Popcorn Hour A-100) with excellent resul...
rrg wrote: The culprit was the Netgear GS724TR gigabit switch that was recently put into service. The SMC8524T that it replaced is an unmanaged switch; the Netgear is a managed switch. The flow control setting on the Netgear was "disabled" (by default), and this was killing the performance of NFS over UDP.
Enabling flow-control on the Netgear switch corrected the issue and "streaming" NFS performance is now fine both over TCP and over UDP.
Perhaps I need to check the 4200's and 3100's that I have connected to GS724TR switches via NFS to Xen hosts. Good to see this post.
Was this specific to the GS724TR? In other words, were you able to try a different managed switch with flow control disabled as well? What firmware were you running, and did they advise you upgrade it? (There have been quite a few updates to the GS724TR software).
It's been my understanding for years that flow control produces more undesirable results on average.
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