[geeks] Linux disparity

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Dec 18 11:52:50 CST 2002


On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:47:18PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> If a 3com puts an extra .005% of load on the server *per packet*, what 
> kind of load are you going to see on a server processing 120Mbps over 3 
> NICs ? Most servers won't see that kind of traffic, but some do (that 
> 120Mbps figure is from one of my servers).

Any file server I own is going to be pushed as hard as the medium will
allow. I'm trying to get that up to hundred mbit, but low cash has been
causing trouble.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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