maximum Maytag mode
(From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 1997-07-22
maximum seek time
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(Or full stroke seek time) The time it takes to seek over all tracks, i.e., from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa. The maximum seek time gives a worst-case measure of the speed of the drive which is useful in some real-time applications where it is important that data flows continuously (such as video editing or CD recording).
Last updated: 1997-07-15
maximum segment size
(MSS) The maximum amount of TCP data that a node can send in one segment. This should be the size of the receiver's reassembly buffer to try to avoid fragmentation.
The equivalent at the physical layer is "Maximum Transmission Unit".Last updated: 1998-03-06
Maximum Transmission Unit
(MTU) The largest number of bytes of "payload" data a frame can carry, not counting the frame's header and trailer.
A frame is a single unit of transportation on the data link layer. It consists of header data plus data which was passed down from the network layer (e.g. an IP datagram) plus sometimes trailer data. An Ethernet (V2) frame has a MTU of 1500 bytes but the size of the frame can be up to 1526 bytes (22 byte header, 4 byte CRC trailer). See also fragmentation.Last updated: 2000-10-07
Nearby terms:
MAXIMOP ♦ maximum Maytag mode ♦ maximum seek time ♦ maximum segment size
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