>
> I think the memory would come in handy on a heavily loaded system, since
> you would gain a little extra time in case you were a little late servicing
> interrupts. i.e. it would smooth out the bumps a little bit.
Yes, but that's what having 8192 2KByte descriptors handy is for... (that's
16MB of buffering).
>
> If your PCI implementation won't keep up with gigabit speeds, you'll just
> go slower. :) Most newer systems (e.g. 440BX) shouldn't have any trouble
> doing a reasonable amount of speed over gigabit ethernet, though.
Typically I don't see higher than 60 or 70MB/s real throughput on most
systems.
-matt
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