Yes, there's value in it. NFS can benefit greatly if you can stuff a single read/write block into a single ethernet frame (rather than splitting it across 3 or 4). It's also helpful for wringing maximum throughput out of your network at higher speeds. Think about the interrupt rate to send 1Gb/s with 1500B frames and compare that to 6000B frames. Even if your card is totally insane, you've just got 4 times more data out of one interrupt.
Check the manpages for the various network drivers... On Dec 29, 2007 11:41 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What on earth is this? > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-debian-ubuntu-jumbo-frames-configuration/ > > I was under the impression that Ethernet frames can never be more than > 1500 bytes. > > Or is it some kind of stupid linux hack? Or does it have any meaning? > > Is there real value in this? > > I don't get it. > > -Girish > > -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
