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On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2000-05-12T20:37:33,
> Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@xxxxxx> said:
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> > Can you define what is a "fast Intel box", on your point of view ?
> > PIII 500, 64MB, IDE disks, 100Mbps NIC ?
> > What is the bottleneck in such a config : CPU, memory, type of NIC ?
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> My guess would be the PCI bus would be the first limit to hit, when saturating
> the ethernets...
I would have thought that you would have to have quite a few NIC -
even if they are gigiablt - to saturate the PCI bus. Then again
hardware isn't my strong point.
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Horms
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