From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 13 14: 6: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD3614D46 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06774; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905132103.OAA06774@implode.root.com> To: Harold Gutch Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 20:30:13 +0200." <19990513203013.A19145@foobar.franken.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:03:46 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:23:42PM -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >> >> I was showing the I/O stats page for ftp.cdrom.com to someone, and >> it's quite amazing. Does anyone have a total on the daily bandwidth over >> the last few days. Has it broken 1TB/day yet? >> >1024^3 > 86400*10^8 > >There's no way to achieve 1TB/day with fast ethernet - and above >I'm assuming a constant stream of 100MBps with no protocol >overheads. Take all this into account and you're left with even >less :). The current record is 969GB. We'd have to have 0% global packet loss and do large packets with everyone to get over the 1TB point with fast ethernet. We plan to move to gigabit ethernet at some point soon, however. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message