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Increasing the pipeline buffers, Figure 7, Data transfer option – Dell POWEREDGE R710 User Manual

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4. Enter the number of network agents in the Network Agents box.

The default value is 2. You can set the value to 2 or 4.

5. Click OK to save your changes.

Data Transfer Option

Figure 7.

Increasing the pipeline buffers

The Data pipe buffers determine the amount of shared memory allocated on each computer for data
pipes. The size of each buffer is 64K. By default, 30 data pipe buffers are established on each server
for data movement operations. You can increase the data transfer throughput from the client by
increasing the number of data pipe buffers.