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> Each GigE card will need its own 66MHz PCI bus. Each PCI bridge will need > to be coming off a memory bus that can sustain all of these and the CPU > at once. > > At that point it really doesnt look much like a PC. How much raw speed do you think I can manage to get out of a really cool n-way server from Compaq? I beleive we'll go for a Compaq server, as that's what's been decided some time ago. I read something by Linus about linux scalability, and I beleive he said that 'linux [2.4] scales good up to 4 cpus, but not that good futher on [to 8?]'. Can anyone fill in the holes here? thanks roy --- Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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