card for the server is nice and dandy, but below will seriously impede even if the client has a 100 or 1000mbps link. Performance in the file/Internet server side(Sorry if this slanted on Solaris, but fundamental best practices is the same.) will be affected by:
- The cpu. Top of my head, 400Mhz SPARC cpu per 100mbps. You get the picture. For x86 CPU running Solaris 10, an Opteron 2.2Ghz can saturate a 1Gbps link with only 8% of CPU utilization. Unfortunately, i have no data for Linux.
- Driver Quality. That's obvious.
- OS TCP/IP Stack. Very important. Different OS have their own different implementations. so YMMV for this.
- Quality of the switch.
- Memory. Bigger memory means that the file might be in the disk cache in linux. You know that memory is thousands of times faster than disk.
Therefore, you will see better benefits overall by looking at the server. Once it's done, the clients will just naturally see the speedups.
regards,
Andre
On 6/7/06,
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hi guys,
we are setting up a gigabit LAN.. but only the FILE and INTERNET server
have the 10/100/1000 mbit card.. all the client will be using 10/100 mbit
card..
thus the client will benifit from our new gigabit network?
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