Gigabit ethernet cards
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon May 17 23:56:41 UTC 2004
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:18:47PM -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> > On desktop boxes the PCI bus typically ends up a bottleneck. Good servers
> > tend to work out better - keep the disk and gige on different pci busses
> > etc
>
> Well, this server uses SCSI, so I guess there is no problem. Right?
Wrong. The SCSI has to be attached somewhere. If its a good server
board (as I suspect all quad boards are) it should have the scsi one its
own bus or sharing only with some slots - see the docs I guess.
> I was wondering about CPU consumption. Do you think that 4x 550MHz CPUs
> are too slow for a GIGE??
Doing what ? vmstat may give you some idea on cpu/disk usage and how much
the cpus are idle
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