This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Sat Jun 8 11:16:46 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (IDENT:root@entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA20496 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:27:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07151; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:26:11 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:00:56 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:57:43 -0400 Received: from [202.76.18.130] ([202.76.18.130]:26794 "EHLO email.netpage.com.hk") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:57:02 -0400 Received: from netpage.com.hk (root@steve1 [202.76.51.141]) by email.netpage.com.hk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00626 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:56:28 +0800 Message-Id: <37776257.BB9F3C46@netpage.com.hk> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:53:59 +0000 From: Steve Underwood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: [Fwd: FTP benchmark proposal] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E880EB62FB2F9CD435BFB629" Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing-dig This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E880EB62FB2F9CD435BFB629 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------E880EB62FB2F9CD435BFB629 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from mail.core.genedata.com (mentolat-e0.core.genedata.com [157.161.173.16]) by email.netpage.com.hk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00111 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:38:57 +0800 Received: from relay.ch.genedata.com (pinatubo-e0.ch.genedata.com [157.161.173.48]) by mail.core.genedata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA30350 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:38:53 +0200 Received: from mencheca.ch.genedata.com (root@mencheca.ch.genedata.com [157.161.173.82]) by relay.ch.genedata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA3142643 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by genedata.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for steveu@netpage.com.hk; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:38:53 +0200 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Steve Underwood Subject: Re: FTP benchmark proposal Message-ID: <19990628133853.A30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> References: <199906272035.NAA00807@lm.bitmover.com> <199906280047.KAA22976@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU> <19990628122932.N30370@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> <37775B6F.6FE7F154@netpage.com.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <37775B6F.6FE7F154@netpage.com.hk>; from Steve Underwood on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:24:31AM +0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:24:31AM +0000, Steve Underwood wrote: > > > I'd also suggest that the server be set up with multiple 100 Mb cards > > > (aka the Mindcraft test). > > > > [i've taken the liberty of correcting the name, as you yourself pointed > > out later] > > > > Why do you suggest that? One gigabit network card is cheaper than 4 > > hundred megabit cards and provides more bandwidth. One of the reasons > > the Mindcraft benchmarketing exercise was so poor. > > If you run benchmark tests with GB Ethernet you loose any right to complain > about unrealistic benchmarks that others might create. A machine with 4 x 100MB > Ethernet cards is a common real world configuration - often more for redundancy > than actual throughput. How many people have GB Ethernet installed, or will do > so in the next 12 months? if it's for redundancy then why bench it for performance? If you're setting up a high performance server then you choose the hardware configuration which matches the system you want to run. Like cdrom.com do for example. They use a single gigabit network card for FreeBSD. > Also tell me where I can get a GB Ethernet card for US$70. I can get 4 x 100Mbps > high performance Tulip compatible cards for that. Also where could I get a GB > hub for less than 4 times a 100MB hub? Where can you get a Tulip card for $17.50? I would love to buy a box. -- Matthew Wilcox "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson --------------E880EB62FB2F9CD435BFB629-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/