Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:03:46 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? Message-ID: <199905132103.OAA06774@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 20:30:13 %2B0200." <19990513203013.A19145@foobar.franken.de>
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>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
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