On Thursday 23 January 2003 5:40 am, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dax Eckenberg wrote: > > > so what exactly does KB per transaction mean? what happens if I am > > > handling 300 concurrent users with 160Kbit encoded audio streams - > > > could I in fact do this on this machine? or will I be limited by the > > > 64KB/t issue? > > > > 300 x 160Kbit = approx. 46Mbit/sec. > > A new-ish SCSI drive should be able to easily pump out in excess of 200 > > Mbit/sec. Your bottleneck will be your ethernet adapter long before your > > local storage. Unless your app is designed very poorly. > > okay things are getting clearer over here. what exactly does KB > per transaction mean? I dont understand what this describes? > > - Noah > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
my guess :- iostat -Iw 60 -t da ad0 KB/t Xfrs MB 8.42 71 0.58 so over the period, 71 transfers occurred totalling 0.58MB for an average KB/t of (0.58*1024) / /71 = 8.37 KB/t but maybe the actual avg transfer size is recorded and summarized giving that slight variation?. Try a longer period and see, or read the code...... (the math starts around line 600....) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message