On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 05:30:08PM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> >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
Correct, though Terry probably meant that "general purpose hw"
(read: cheap motherboards) usually have 32bit/33MHz PCI buses, so
they can easily become a bottleneck especially if they are shared
with other peripherals such as disk controllers, video acquisition
boards, or multiple ethernet boards.
cheers
luigi
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