Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2 thoughts. . . | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:56:17 +0100 (BST) |
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> : > b) 2.0.7 has copy/checksum and other stuff in the alpha, so a pair > : > of alphas with the wide main memory bus should set a new record > : What was the exact configuration for the old record? > > A pair of 133Mhz P5 Intel boxes, ASUS motherboard, 512K pipeline burst, > SMC 10/100 PCI fast ethernet cards, something like 1.3.98 or so.
We should be able to beat that for bandwidth figures by a chunk because we don't do receiver side copy/csum out of the ring buffer on the tulip driver yet.
Not sure about latency though.
Alan
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