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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
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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

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