>
> Of course its a switched network with full duplex operation. But now
> that the general answer is that it is not a limitation of the nic card
> I am going to look elsewhere. I was not to sure if it was actually a
> limit myself, its just that I observed it on two different machines.
You should be looking at some basic system statistics to see where your
limiting factor actually is; try watching 'systat -vmstat 1' while
you're hitting your limit.
> They however were not huge powerhouses, one was a p2-450, and one was a
> dual p2 333. Both running real new versions of 3.3-stable.
Note also that Apache isn't the fastest of animals; you might want to
use a lighter-weight server like thttpd if all you're doing is serving
static content.
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