Theoretical Samba File Server
Jim Herrmann
Jim at itdepends.com
Sun Oct 28 17:48:54 CST 2001
If the Intel hardware isn't enough, there's always Linux on the mainframe.
I/O throughput is what the mainframe is all about. Of course, that's
assuming your company already has a mainframe. You probably wouldn't want to
go out and buy a mainframe just for this one project, but it may also
something to consider long term. Mainframe sales are up 30% over last year.
Compare that to PC sales. ;-)
Just my $.02.
Jim
On Sunday 28 October 2001 12:12 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > If you're concerned about the network being a bottleneck, why not use
> > Fast EtherChannel or gigabit ethernet? Fast EtherChannel lets you bond
> > up to four 100 Mbps ethernet connections. Its configuration is described
> > in Documentation/networking/bonding.txt in your kernel source tree. GigE
> > cards can be had for less than $200 these days (copper and fiber).
>
> I was having a discussion about adding multiple network cards to mitigate
> network bandwidths the other day with an associate of mine. The final
> conclusion with cheap intel hardware that the overall bus might be a
> limiting factor then the amount of data you can pump out over a network
> connection. Think about it ... processing time - drive seek - drive -
> read - send across bus to network devices... * the number of network
> cards you have ... even taking in account of DMA we questioned the
> benefits of adding more network devices.
>
> Our conclusion could be wrong. Feedback is appreciated.
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