On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Stefan Hinker - Systems Practice - Sun
Microsystems Germany <Stefan.Hinker at sun.com> wrote:
> I might be missing something, but I read:
>
> Martin Mueller wrote:
>> * two T5120 connected via switched Fast Ethernet
>
> Mike Gerdts wrote:
>> 2) Why is it only getting 540 Mbits/sec (1 / 14.8 * 8 * 1000) of
> network throughput?
>
> Isn't Fast Ethernet 100MBit Ethernet? ?So we're actually seeing a factor of
> 5.4 * wirespeed? ?Which would be a valid reason to keep compression ;-)
>
> my 0.02 ?

Surely Fast Ethernet in there was a mistake.  If not, the statement
that they weren't network constrained was almost certainly wrong.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/

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