On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:16:08AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>
> I don't think that the decision to raise the nfs read/write size
> from 8k to 32k should be governed exclusively by host-side
> buffer issues.

Nor is buffer size even a useful metric.  There are many devices with
which we can receive at line rate even though they have small buffers.
In fact, we can do this with *most* Ethernet cards.  It's only garbage
like the 3c509 that actually has problems.

> For NFS in environments where it crosses a router, or [help us!]
> a WAN, a 32k fragmented UDP packet can be far more severe than
> an 8k one, because it may be substantially more likely
> that the drop of a single fragment will occur, for two reasons:

In this case, you should be using NFS over TCP.