From: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl@sci.kun.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:42:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-99492382332750@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-99487796814308@msgid-missing>
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Don Cohen wrote:
> I just scp'd about 15MB over that connection (took about 7-8 min) and
> watched the load average while it was happening. It converged to zero.
It would. The routing is done in kernelspace and therefore not counted
against the load average.
However, given the relative simplicity of dealing with network traffic at
speeds lower than (say) 100 Mbit/s, any system with a PCI bus and a
processor that has a clock multiplier on the memory-bus clock should be able
to quite easily route at line rate. Thus, anything over a PII-233 should
pose zero problems whatsoever, whatever you want to do.
Doei, Arthur. (Ofcourse, I'm not talking GigEther here... that's an entirely
different ballpark. Standard PCI can't even really keep up
with *that*)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-11 18:59 [LARTC] On the question of how big a machine you need Don Cohen
2001-07-11 19:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-07-11 19:22 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-07-11 19:43 ` Henry Yen
2001-07-12 7:42 ` Arthur van Leeuwen [this message]
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