10 gigabit ethernet

[Rajiv Aaron Manglani]

> We would like to speed up NFS traffic between a file server (FreeBSD with 
> ZFS) and a compute server (Linux) and wondered if 10 gigabit ethernet was 
> a reasonable approach. Can anyone report experience? Currently it appears 
> that NFS traffic saturates a 1 gigabit/second link, whereas local access 
> to files is several times as fast.

have you tried using jumbo frames? you might be able to implement that with your current hardware.