>I'll agree with your experience. At this point, the limiting >factor is PCI bandwith, at least for general purpose hardware.
I haven't found PCI bandwidth to be a problem, either, at least when using gigabit ethernet NICs on 64bit and/or 66MHz PCI. When one writes an efficient HTTP server that takes a tiny amount of memory per process and uses sendfile() to crank out the bits, the bottleneck becomes the CPU for doing context switches, packet header creation, and TCP protocol processing. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
