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/
