Gigabit for web servers (WAS )RE: [geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Fogg, James wrote:

> So, are you running 40-50 million hits/hour? What entity is this?

It wouldn't necessarily have to be that much.  It could be high-quality
video, or giant database accesses or something.

Peace...  Sridhar

> ~ > waaaaait a minute. gigabit ethernet cards? for a webserver?
> ~ have you
> ~ > been smoking crack??
> ~
> ~ No.  We were pushing over a gigabit earlier this week.  Now
> ~ admittedly,
> ~ that was the total for all our servers - IIRC it was 1.2Gbps from our
> ~ London facility and 0.31Gbps from our NY facility - but if we were to
> ~ use a small number of z800s instead of a large number of Suns, we'd
> ~ certainly need more than 100Mbps from each.
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