Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

[Jonathan Disher]

>maddening to the CPU. As I recall, the host must be able to process
>around 82,000 packets (read "CPU interrupts") per second to fill the
>pipe unidirectionally. Try this in a full duplex setting with a 2 gig
>pipe to fill and you (at least) double the amount of work the CPU needs
>to accomplish every second. 

IIRC, gigaether is actually 500mbit ethernet in full duplex mode.

Tho, I could be wrong.

-j