On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> > > "It works." is significantly different from "It works well." which is
> > > still different from "This is as good as it gets." I'd expect a liberal
> > > arts college to put heavier use on streaming protocols and that's where
> > > latency can bite the most.
> >
> > Agreed, in my case it falls into the "it works well" catagory, we just
> > switched out the linux box for a Sun ultra 10 333MHz 256M ram running
> > Raptor, performance has not changed notisably.
>
> That probably says more about Raptor- assuming you've done the usual
> Solaris tuning tricks. That or you're at saturation point for your
> outbound link (or buffers) or you're colliding trying to get to the Sun.
>
> U10's have a PCI bus though :(
or that my real internet load is really that low. Don't assume that the
firewall is always the limiting factor.
David Lang
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