From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] small boxed PC and dual CPU file server?
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:13:15 -0400
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On Fri Jul 19 12:55:36 EDT 2002, doc@mdrconsult.com wrote:
> ...
>   Are you sure you're saturating the ethernet adapter and not the PCI
> bus?  A full 64-bit, 33MHz PCI bus gives something on the order of 275
> MB, or 2200 Mb.  That's _total_ available bandwidth.  Even in a totally
> unloaded setup, I can't see getting a gigabit through it without
> knocking the box on its nose.
>   Never mind the bus overhead when you start moving bits from disk
> instead of the, um, ether.
> ...

Maybe I'm misremembering, but was sure I did it. Of course, I no longer
have that hardware available. The only hardware I do have will only manage
850Mb/s (933MHz PIII, 64-bit/66MHz PCI, Netgear GA620T CAT-5 GbE card,
PC133 SDRAM - none of it recent hardware, but that's the best a beleaguered
telecomms company can do...).

--jim