Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Noah Garrett Wallach <sleek@enabled.com> To: Dax Eckenberg <deckenberg@dweebsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, canton <canton@enabled.com> Subject: Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer Message-ID: <20030122203914.T76039@typhoon.enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <0a8401c2c294$22e6e1e0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> References: <20030122191542.J76039@typhoon.enabled.com> <20030123032816.GA1799@dan.emsphone.com> <20030122193922.C76039@typhoon.enabled.com> <0a8401c2c294$22e6e1e0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dax Eckenberg wrote: > > > > > > so what exactly does KB per transaction mean? what happens if I am > > handling 300 concurrent users with 160Kbit encoded audio streams - could I > > in fact do this on this machine? or will I be limited by the 64KB/t > > issue? > > > > 300 x 160Kbit = approx. 46Mbit/sec. > A new-ish SCSI drive should be able to easily pump out in excess of 200 Mbit/sec. > Your bottleneck will be your ethernet adapter long before your local storage. > Unless your app is designed very poorly. > okay things are getting clearer over here. what exactly does KB per transaction mean? I dont understand what this describes? - Noah To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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