[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jun 25 10:21:18 CDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:14:57AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:56:57AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:56:43AM -0400, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > 
> > > But in the meantime, its disgruntled employees, nosy employees, on-site
> > > vendors with laptops, etc. that make up the largest threat.  These are
> > > people with motives and at least 100Mbps connection to your servers.
> > 
> > Pfft.  I've never had more than a 10Mbps connection on a job site.
> 
> you don't work for the right places then. ;)
> 
> last place i worked, i had 100Mbit to the fileserver (NetApp!!) and when i
> downloaded stuff off the internet i could go as fast as 800K/sec as long as
> the download site could handle it.
> 
> too bad that job sucked ass, i don't miss it one bit.

Why do I need that much bandwidth?  I work off my local disk most of
the time.  I'd rather have a second machine in my office rather than
upgraded networking.

Now, at home faster networking would be great.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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