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> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:32:19 -0800 > From: Jim Shankland <[email protected]> > Does anybody have any rough figures for what kind of load (both > bytes/s total throughput and packets/s) a more or less vanilla x86 > running a free OS can handle today? The last time I looked at this -- > several years ago -- I seemed to top out at somewhere close to 200 > Mb/s total throughput; I figured I could safely count on 100 Mb/s. > That is consistent with a 32-bit PCI bus running at 33 MHz: raw > capacity is 1 Gb/s, but each bit takes two trips over the bus, so > that's 500 Mb/s, but then there's substantial bus overhead > (contention, burst setup overhead, etc.). Hardly vanilla x86, but in between PCs and <insert favorite router mfg here> one has CompactPCI and cPSB. A quick Google search will give more info. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <[email protected]>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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