Re: 2 thoughts. . .
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:56:17 +0100 (BST)
> : > 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