After I switched the Maya workstations ports on our main switch to HIGH QOS,
there is certainly a difference. Not done any kind of tests, but I thought I
would let you know.
The switch I am using, which I am using as a "backbone" switch is the Asante
GX5-2400W. It's pretty neat, the only thing I miss is SNMP monitoring, I
need to keep the web interface open to do any monitoring, which makes
graphing tricky.
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Greg Ercolano [mailto:erco@(email surpressed)]
|Sent: 14 May 2004 10:14
|To: void@(email surpressed)
|Subject: Re: Staggering render start times.
|
|[posted to rush.general]
|
|Greg Ercolano wrote:
|> If you've got a network large enough to where it slows your
|> server down, you may want to consider some kind of network
|> flow control at the switches, so that the workstations have
|> higher priority to the network than the farm.
|
| Many Cisco routers have this, BTW.
|
| They refer to this as QOS (Quality Of Service) prioritization.
| There may be other terms for it.
|
| Made popular because of VoIP, and other high volume data
| streaming apps.
|
| I believe some of the more sophisticated switches have
| prioritization as well, where you can set priorities
| at the individual ports, so that workstations and server
| can be given higher priority than the farm.
|
| I don't know specifics, I just hear rumors ;)
|
| Has anyone on the group played with this stuff, and has
| any stories to tell?
|
| I know some of my larger customers have played with that
| stuff with success, but I've never received particular
| hardware or 'best config' recommendations.
|
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