From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 20 9:24:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CE914FD1 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA09222; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:23:20 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:23:20 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: David Greenman Cc: Amancio Hasty , Matthew Dillon , Julian Elischer , Bill Paul , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet revisited In-Reply-To: <199903200804.AAA12975@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >I think that David Greeman quoted 2 gigabytes/sec memory bandwith for > >the Xeon processor with whatever chipset he was using. > > That was Intel's claim when using 8-way interleaved, 50ns EDO memory (which > is how this machine is configured). I think whoever said that at Intel was > wrong, however. It doesn't seem to be as fast as even 1 GB/second. I'm > actually getting lower transmit numbers than Bill is for the equivilent tests, > on a machine that should be much faster than Bill's, and that's another > mystery we've been trying to resolve. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project Believe only what Stream tells you. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message