On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Greg M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregm@servu.net.au" target="_blank">gregm@servu.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just be aware that if you are pushing the 3560X hard in a server environment<br>
you will experience packet drops due to shitty buffers on the 2960S/3560X<br>
and 3750X series. We ended up choosing the 4948E because of this...<br></blockquote><div><br>Most 1GE switches have anemic buffers which results in less-than-stellar performance if you drive them hard, have bursts or incast traffic.<br>
Alas, this doesn't even figure in most people's knowledge/requests when it comes it networking.<br><br>A good example of the issue you've described is at <<a href="http://dev.datasift.com/blog/big-data-bigger-networking">http://dev.datasift.com/blog/big-data-bigger-networking</a>> and <<a href="http://dev.datasift.com/blog">http://dev.datasift.com/blog</a>><br>
<br><br>cheers,<br><br>lincoln.<br></div></div>