On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:53:13PM -0400, Paul Reavis wrote: > > I would have some concern about full speed 10MB routing on a 486, but > > every time I've checked `top` or similar during heavy routing the CPU > > has been loafing. Is `top` a good indicator of this, or is it only > > tracking non-kernel processes? > > CPU is not the issue here. Speed of the ISA bus is an issue; > available RAM would be the other ... >
While we're at it (not to state the obvious ;) remember that scsi disk(s) will ease the load on your processor as well. -- Nate
