Performance Tuning

Take Aways - continued
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Read the vendors Release Notes, tuning guides, etc
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Visit their website
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Install and read the source
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/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.x86_64/Documentation/networking
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Use the Internet as starting place for the knobs to turn
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Do not assume every setting on the Internet will work for
you, often times different websites conflict with their advice
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Internet search “linux tcp_window_scaling performance”
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some sites say to set it to 0, other sites set it to 1
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Let's run a test to see what works best in *my*
testbed....