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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Importing iSCSI target from NetBSD
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On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:23:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-May-30 09:46:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> >network bandwidth.  It seems like hardware swings back and forth quite a 
> >bit -- for a few years gigabit was way-the-heck-faster-than-CPU, now it's 
> >the other way around again.  The best stack optimization work happens when 
> >you have to figure out how to get the network stack to perform well in 
> >near-infinite bandwidth scenarios with a CPU-bound stack,
> 
> Can't you get this by using a gigabit interface and throttling the
> CPU via ACPI or cpufreq?

Buying PII-400-class machine on Ebay should be easier. :)

-Maxim