From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 1 06:10:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01324 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:10:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [141.39.224.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01277 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bs@adimus.de) Received: (from admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5) with UUCP id OAA22459; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:55:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail by mx.adimus.de with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zkq86-000021-00; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:46:14 +0100 Received: from det.adimus.de(192.168.0.1) via SMTP by adimus.de, id smtpdZpO105; Tue Dec 1 14:46:12 1998 Received: from bs by det.adimus.de with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zkpit-00015E-00; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:20:11 +0100 To: "Christopher R. Bowman" Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , Mike Smith , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations References: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com> <199811302212.RAA04765@quark.ChrisBowman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Benedikt Stockebrand Date: 01 Dec 1998 14:20:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Christopher R. Bowman"'s message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:40:53 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher R. Bowman" writes: > Of course this all ignores transaction overhead, packet overhead, inter packet > space and realistic models of the latencies and bandwidths of the devices on > the other end. It is just a rough theoretical max throughput. And a server usually serves multiple clients. Even on a switched net all this traffic has to go through a single 100 Mbps link between switch and server. This doesn't sound like a problem since most clients would spend little of their time on disk/network I/O. But as soon as some of them start to swap over the net this is a pain in the behind for everyone... So long, Ben -- Benedikt Stockebrand Adimus Beratungsgesellschaft für System- System Administration & Design, und Netzwerkadministration mbH & Co KG IT Security, Remote System Mgmt Universitätsstr. 142, 44799 Bochum Opinions presented are my own. Tel. (02 34) 971 971 -2, Fax -9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message