--- Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, if you think they're so provably > wrong you are welcome to > put forth an actual technical argument to > disprove them, rather then > throw out derogatory comments which contain > no data value whatsoever. > I've done my best to explain the technical > issues to you, but frankly > you have not answered with a single > technical argument or explanation > of your own. If you are expecting > acolades, you are aren't going to > get them from any of us. The only accolades I need are in the form of $$. I'm hoping to find a suitable OS for the next generation of product, so that's my only goal. Fire X number of packets at a system bridging packets and the machine will go into livelock before it starts flow controlling, and as you increase the PPS volume you'll see buckets of packets dropped. The value of 'X' is different on every machine of course, and somewhat linear on the same machine with different CPUs. You can tune it until the cows come home, but there's nothing elegant about it. If you do in fact enter a flow controlled state, buckets of packets are lost in the process, by both the sending and receiving machines. Flow control merely shifts the losses; its not a solution, its a symptom that maans your machine isn't fast enough to handle the required load. You realize of course that by the time you have a ring breach and flow control is issued and you can catch up you've lost 1000s of packets at gigE speeds, right? Its hard to disprove something that is mindless, such as your claim that modern processors cannot be overrun. Its so patently ridiculous that its like proving that sand is squishy. It takes *some* amount of CPU to process a packet. Certainly over the years that amount has become less and less. But I really don't get your point, or how it related to making MP faster then UP. Are you saying that since processors are fast enough to handle huge network loads that there is no reason to make the OS better? So if you're not running 10gigE then there's no reason to use multiple processors? DT __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com