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Re: [Xen-devel] Limits on mtu size ?

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Limits on mtu size ?
From: Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:39:33 +0200
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On 10/08/2011 12:29 AM, James Harper wrote:
>>
>> Network performance on fast physical networks usually increase by
>> switching to larger packet sizes. So I decided to increase the mtu on
...
> Dom0 feels sluggish.

This was a wrong  dns setting.

 So 16436 is to big and 9000
> is not?
>>
>> I have attached the complaints of darkstar. Its running out of kernel
>> memory?
>>
>
> If all the hosts are Linux and GSO is enabled, the machines should be
> exchanging 64K packets anyway, regardless of MTU.
>

I should have read this http://lwn.net/Articles/188489/

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Hans

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