Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:55:16 -0800 (AKDT) | From | "Christopher E. Brown" <> | Subject | Re: Gigabit NIC question. |
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Richard> It might not be a 2.0.36 driver that is needed. It may be the > > Richard> 2.0.36 reliability! > > > > 2.0.36 reliawhat?? If you are looking for GigE performance you are > > likely to want SMP and SMP in 2.0.36 is absolutely not realiable. > > Actually by 2.0.36 its very reliable. It still gives sucky performance. > > Alan
forbin:~# uname -a;uptime Linux forbin 2.0.36 #2 SMP Sun Apr 4 14:04:56 AKDT 1999 i686 unknown 7:40pm up 435 days, 2:43, 1 user, load average: 5.46, 5.30, 5.28
Dual PPro 200Mhz, 128M ECC FPM @66mhz Ultra-Wide + Cheetas
Box has been rebooted once since the last kernel build, when we lost power for 4 hrs. We had 3.5 hrs backup power.
Right about the network io though, it will easily max a single 100Mbit interface, but won't go past 180Mbit total (box has 2 100Mbit FD interfaces).
--- As folks might have suspected, not much survives except roaches, and they don't carry large enough packets fast enough... --About the Internet and nuclear war.
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