Re: What's the slowest SPARC box that can saturate a gigabit link?

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 12/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:01:53 GMT

    On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Steven Hill wrote:

    > I can tell you that's nonsense, although I cannot tell you what will drive
    > a ge adapter... We ran one in a dual 400MHz E250, and a couple of other
    > machines. I would expect it to work fine on other lower spec hardware too
    > though.

    "Work fine" and "saturate" aren't the same thing. The old rule of
    thumb used to be 1 CPU MHz for every bps (so, 100 MHz for 100 baseT,
    and so on), but given the TCP/IP stack's performance improvements in
    S10, that rule may need to be updated. 

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming"
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