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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
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Subject: Routing Performance?
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:45:46 -0400
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The new P4s are shipping with 800mhz RAMBUS memory modules. Wouldn't 2GB of
800mhz RAM go a long way to evening out the performance between a PC/FreeBSD
box and all but the most specialized, packet-pushing ASICs?

I was doing some rough figuring, and could see how a P4 with its new bus and
memory  path would have trouble forwarding at least 2Gb/s.

Am I missing something?

Deepak Jain
AiNET


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